The United Kingdom in 2019
2019 will be remembered as the BREXIT tussle, where an unnecessarily weakened minority government, not surprisingly, lost control. Let’s re-cap. In 2016 the then Prime Minister David Cameron, having failed to negotiate any meaningful changes for the UK, with the EU; bravely allowed a referendum on continuing membership of the EU. He campaigned to remain and lost, highlighting perhaps, how divorced from their constituents politicians can be. Mr Cameron did the honourable thing and resigned. Theresa May replaced Mr Cameron as Prime Minister and immediately commenced the BREXIT process. She also called a General Election, in the process losing the existing workable majority; forming a minority government reliant on the Northern Irish DUP members (who were not keen on BREXIT). The politics were already very difficult, as a result of the referendum; Mrs May’s election failure effectively made governing and therefore BREXIT, untenable. ...