The issue was Brexit, voted on in 2016 by the people in a referendum that seemed to catch the European Union and its proponents off guard. Three years of footdragging and it happened again.
The vote was in June 2016 and it took Parliament until March 2017 to activate the exit clause, giving the EU and Britain two years to work out an amiable deal. Despite some gloomy predictions, no economic damage occurred and life went on...except for Parliament, who has been trying to undermine the will of the people with constant extensions of deadlines so that by 2019, nothing has been accomplished on the Brexit front. The Labour Party was even emboldened enough to back away from its pledge to uphold the Brexit vote even if the party was not happy with it. Plus a couple of lawsuits were filed to try and stop Brexit. It came down to another election between pro-EU Labour and Brexit leaning Tories. The Tories won big and new Prime Minister Boris Johnson has pledged to leave the increasingly dictatorial EU.
I am not sure where the contempt for democracy comes from, but this kind of behavior always leads to collapse. The 21st Century version of the Soviet Union--the European Union--is run by an undemocratic elite that is often not accountable to decisions they try to inflict on the entire continent. The rise of populism in Poland, Italy, and Britain seems to have surprised them and active combat in the streets of Paris, which the media tries to squelch, as well as rising Euroskeptic parties in Germany leads to one conclusion----->Go back to the Common Market.
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