Halloween Horror: Brexit Edition

We’ve been following the slow crisis of Brexit here at Rouges. You can see our previous coverage hereand here. In case you’ve been living under a rock, in 2016, David Cameron put a referendum on EU membership to the people of the United Kingdom and in a stunning upset, the UK voted, in a non-binding resolution to leave the European Union of which it had been a part since 1979 in the earliest days of the modern incarnation of the European Union.

The Deal

So far, it has taken two years to get the point where the UK and EU have a tentative deal. David Cameron abandoned #10 after the vote, which he didn’t even agree with, and left the party in the hands of Brexiteer conservatives and what was left of UKIP. Then they had a general election in which the Tory’s had to shovel billions of pounds to the DUP of Northern Ireland to get a majority and in which they all ran on Brexit as a policy. Labour was no better during that election as they agreed to move Brexit forward, but Corbyn ran on a far more progressive platform on domestic policy.

After that general election, Theresa May has brought her deal to Parliament 3 times, and it’s been voted down three times in landslides against her. In between these huge losses, Parliament held indicative votes to see what direction the House would take. However, no pathway was selected. They could have voted for any of the following:

• A Second Referendum
• Revokation of Article 50