What Just Happened? Brexit

In Which I Try to Explain to Americans the Madness that is Brexit

Former Prime Minister David Cameron, campaigning, apparently. PC Irish Times.
https://www.bbc.com/news/politics/eu_referendum/results
Former PM David Cameron in his eco-hut which he bought to write his memoirs in. Photograph: Red Sky
Prime Minister Theresa May signing the Article 50 letter in a weirdly sparkly top. Photo: Newsweek
  • There would be a two to four year transition/implementation period in which most existing arrangements would stay in place
  • EU citizens who are residing in the UK and UK citizens living in the EU at the time of the end of the transition period will retain EU rights to live, work and study
  • UK will pay about £39 billion pounds to the EU, covering the UK’s existing obligations to the EU budget
  • The EU and UK agree to the backstop to avoid a hard border in Ireland
PC Al Jazeera
  1. Politically, the return of the hard border would threaten the peace agreement in Northern Ireland. From the 1960s until 1998, Northern Ireland experienced a conflict known as “the Troubles.” 3,600 were killed and thousands injured. In 1998, the Good Friday Agreement ended the violent conflict — one of the key components of the peace agreement was the Northern Irish border. There’s no border check points, no military, no fences, no walls, no nothing. This was key to ending the conflict because it allowed people who identified as Irish and/or nationalists in Northern Ireland to act as if they already lived in a united Ireland. (Patrick Kielty explains this much better than I can in his amazing thread here.)
“Britan Trump”

“BREXIT MEANS BREXIT.”

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PhD’ing in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge via Queen's University Belfast via Stanford. www.alinautrata.com

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Alina Utrata

PhD’ing in Politics and International Studies at Cambridge via Queen's University Belfast via Stanford. www.alinautrata.com