Brexit: With millions of Brits starting to reconsider their decision after being shown the economic costs of the move, it seems where politics of prejudice wanted to divide the people, the economic realities united them, writes Yonela Diko
This follows an EU referendum of June 23 2016, where 51.9% of UK Citizens voted to leave the EU which they had been part of since 1973. Being part of the EU meant the UK was part of a single market where they trade freely with other European countries and trade as a block with countries outside the EU.
The question of the EU being the sole decider on the fate of its members, particularly on such highly sensitive issues such as immigration, brought to intense scrutiny the question of sovereignty among some of its members The 2016 referendum split the UK in half, with just under 52% of the country deciding to cut ties with the EU. The hardliners went on an overdrive and won the day. Fear and scaremongering, immigrants coming to take jobs, to take small businesses, terrorists from Arab African countries, particularity Libya, who had an axe to grind with Britain, were hiding behind immigrants to come to Europe and destroy the western way of life. The whole lot needed to go back to wherever it is they came from.
Stuck in old delusions of grandeur about an Empire that once stood on its own for centuries on end, Britain did not realise just how much Europe means to it. Everyone was blinded by prejudice and a false sense of invincibility.
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