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  > Does it ring a bell? It's not like it hasn't happened 
  > thousands of times throughout history.

While that is true, what about the ideas of Buddha in the sutras? There are several sutras which deal with this particular thing, and how violence was overcome with non-violence. And if you think "that won't work!", I want to point out that of all the civilizations on this planet which came and went, only the Chinese and the Vedic survived to this present day; they even fought and won their independence from the vast and mighty British empire with civil disobedience and non-violence! The Vedic civilization gave us the concept of Chakra wheel of Dharma, the Dharmaraja, and buddha, which anyone can become.

If anyone knows what a violent war is, it's us, Europeans. Isn't that all the more reason we should turn to civil disobedience and non-violence, instead of repeating the same mistakes, over and over and over again?

In a way, what the English did by voting to exit the european union is a form of civil disobedience, sending a very clear signal to Bruxelles, and the EU government's rigidiy and unwillingness to reform. And for that, for being peacefully disobedient, for sending a signal, that's worthy of respect.