Confused by Brexit? How Britain has gotten itself in more of a mess than Westeros:
If you’re confused by Brexit while sitting on the other side of the Atlantic, allowFor the 17 million people who voted “Leave” in 2016 referendum, Friday was to be Britain’s “Independence Day.” Instead, after two years of political backstabbing and backpedaling, Parliamentarians voted against Britain leaving the European Union for the third time. That vote has put the final nail in the coffin for the prime minister’s proposed deal and potentially her government.
The 2016 referendum vote was a binary choice between “Remain” and “Leave” the European Union. It did not, in any way, specify what “Leave” actually meant. And this has led to many of the problems we face today. As it stands, Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, but for the sake of long-awaited peace in the region, democratic power is shared between pro-Irish Republican and pro-Unionist parties.
Many speculate this is because the campaigns behind the “Leave” vote did not actually believe they would win and therefore did not present a clear plan or vision for what Brexit meant. The British Parliament is a “representative democracy,” in which voters select a candidate from a party to represent their views in Parliament. That means you can have politicians within a party holding diverse personal views about Brexit, making it difficult to ever get a clear majority in any vote.
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