For anyone wondering what Britain's exit from the EU was about, this is the best representation of the issue [from the
Wall Street Journal]:
The Brexit campaign started as a cry for liberty, perhaps articulated
most clearly by Michael Gove, the British justice secretary (and, on
this issue, the most prominent dissenter in Mr. Cameron’s cabinet). Mr.
Gove offered practical examples of the problems of EU membership. As a
minister, he said, he deals constantly with edicts and regulations
framed at the European level—rules that he doesn’t want and can’t
change. These were rules that no one in Britain asked for, rules
promulgated by officials whose names Brits don’t know, people whom they
never elected and cannot remove from office. Yet they become the law of
the land. Much of what we think of as British democracy, Mr. Gove
argued, is now no such thing.
Instead of grumbling about the things we can’t change, Mr. Gove said, it was time to follow “the Americans who declared their independence and never looked back” and “become an exemplar of what an inclusive, open and innovative democracy can achieve.” Many of the Brexiteers think that Britain voted this week to follow a template set in 1776 on the other side of the Atlantic.