This skips how Brexit is mostly about British politics and very little about the EU. Of those countries, only France has a tradition of organizing referendums.

This skips how Brexit is mostly about British politics and very little about the EU. Of those countries, only France has a tradition of organizing referendums. The politics there will not get cornered like Cameron (amazingly) did. There's also nowhere in Europe such a strange alliance between libertarians buccaneers (Johnson) and hardcore reactionaries (Farage). Protectionists and reactionaries on their own would not win a referendum anywhere.