What can we expect from the Brexit?

Does Britain’s Brexit Chaos Have a Silver Lining?

Prime Minister Theresa May’s government and parliament have lost control over Britain’s post-Brexit course, argues Philip Stephens in the Financial Times. The only potential silver lining? That “the political chaos wrought by the referendum is the only thing that could stop Brexit happening.”

“A majority of MPs think Brexit is a mistake but feel obliged to pursue it lest they be accused of defying what the tabloids declare to be ‘the will of the people.’ This is what happens when the subtle checks and balances of representative democracy are subordinated to the crude majoritarianism of referendums. Germans, ever mindful of what happened in the 1930s, understand this,” Stephens writes.

“Brexit represents the biggest upheaval since 1945 in Britain’s political and economic life -- an enterprise of enormous complexity and consequence. It is all-consuming. Yet the project is being steered, if that is the right word, by an administration drained of political authority by a misjudged election and by a Conservative party at war with itself.”
Boring Brexit Bad for Britain. Britons’ attention may be consumed by Brexit, but Europe finds the issue boring. That’s a bad sign for Britain – and suggests a poorer and less influential future, Kim Willsher writes for the Los Angeles Times.
“Britain faces a firm reality of economics and politics set forth by the 27 countries it wants to leave behind, though not entirely. For many from the remaining EU countries, emphasizing other issues -- such as support for Spain’s move to keep the Catalonia region from seceding -- rightly places Brexit behind what is now more important for those sticking with the bloc,” Willsher writes.

“That stands to be a problem for Britain, which is expected to pay the EU tens of billions of dollars to leave — how much remains undetermined — and is struggling to set up trade deals and nail down other details for business and worker relations. Uncertainty about what might happen has made many people jittery.”

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