Europe has another and better solution. The European Union is a "co-operative empire", a supranational authority in which every member state is subject to a common framework of laws, but also has a share in the making and administration of those laws.

stands against the nationalist sentiment of most British EU sceptics and British Europhobes.

These groups will fight tooth and nail not to make what you espouse as a solution happen.

In my own family and circle of relatives alone, there is a split over EU with one side believing that EU is the best way forward and the other being anti-EU.