After the public’s denunciation of UK Prime Minister David Cameron, who worked desperately to keep the United Kingdom in the European Community, Theresa May rose to replace him as Prime Minister and to navigate the country through the “BREXIT” process. Brexit is the United Kingdom’s exit from the European community. It has been a process marred by setbacks and detours. The latest — the Prime Minister’s 12 Point Plan to exit the EU — has created a crisis and in the last two days it appears that her government is derailing entirely.
Theresa May has been negotiating the UK’s exit from the Community and it has led to what some are calling “Brexit lite.” Some are even calling it Brexit in style, but not substance. What good does it do to be said to be out of the European Union, but still under many of the rules and regulations, critics of her government argue.
It started over the weekend with the resignation of Brexit secretary David Davis, who found the recent overtures to the EU as concessions that were unacceptable:
This was quickly followed by the resignation of the UK’s Foreign Minister Boris Johnson:
What’s next? Likely it will be a “no confidence” vote for PM May. The Daily Mail reports:
“Furious Brexiteer MPs are demanding a vote of no confidence in Theresa May over her soft Brexit blueprint.
“The Prime Minister will face her MPs tomorrow night at a meeting of the 1922 Committee, the group of all Conservative backbenchers.
“Morley and Outwood MP Andrea Jenkyns was the first to go public with a warning she would sign a letter to party chiefs demanding a vote if the details of the deal were as bad as she thought.
“And veteran Brexiteer Sir Bill Cash warned today a contest could be unstoppable because of the level of unhappiness…”
The drama unfolding in the UK is significant. To say the May government is in trouble is an understatement.
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