Congregational church government: Yes or no?

This is not a post about Brexit. But I am going to use the 2016 Brexit referendum in the UK as an analogy. 

To refresh your memory, in 2016 a referendum was held in the UK on whether or not to stay in the European Union (EU). This had been a longstanding issue for debate ever since the UK first joined the EU in 1971.

In the event - to the surprise of most pundits - the vote was 52 per cent to leave the EU. This led to the immediate resignation of the Prime Minister, David Cameron, and later to the resignation of his successor, Theresa May, in 2019.