Charles de Gaulle systematically opposed UK's entry into Common Market. War years in England  confirmed his doubts shaped by European history that Anglos saw union of the Continent as threat.

After de Gaulle, UK sneaked into CM. Far sighted suspected then that UK 's was a Trojan Horse, to disrupt the European Union.

Now the goal has been achieved.

Little do the English realize that they are an island, not sharing European Hellenistic values that are primarily Socratic and Republican, while the English (and by extension Canada and India) are Democracies that Socrates opposed. With Brexit, England will lose as the Scots, always more European by education and culture, would also exit.

In today's Globalization and Free Trade, no man is an island, English take note.

In Canada, French-Scottish PE Trudeau with his Socratic Just Society inched us towards Republic. Will his aptly named son finish the process now as English here lose numbers and power to New Canadians - Europeans/Asians?