🇬🇧🇪🇺⚡️- 10 years ago today, the United Kingdom voted to leave the #European Union fulfilling a decades long campaign by Nigel Farage to leave the economic bloc and beginning another chapter in Britain's rocky relationship with mainland #Europe.
Since the #referendum the country has now gone through 6 Prime Ministers and a slow rolling political crisis around the issues of #migration, identity, and economic stagnation that led to the #Brexit vote to begin with.
After all these years Farage himself is closer than he ever has been to becoming the leader of the nation only held back by a fracturing right wing base, arguably of his own creation.
The Brexit vote was also seen as an early bellwether of the viability of populist #politics and predictor of Donald Trumps 2016 victory in the #US later that year. #UK #azatelluk #azatellnews #uknews
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Since the #referendum the country has now gone through 6 Prime Ministers and a slow rolling political crisis around the issues of #migration, identity, and economic stagnation that led to the #Brexit vote to begin with.
After all these years Farage himself is closer than he ever has been to becoming the leader of the nation only held back by a fracturing right wing base, arguably of his own creation.
The Brexit vote was also seen as an early bellwether of the viability of populist #politics and predictor of Donald Trumps 2016 victory in the #US later that year. #UK #azatelluk #azatellnews #uknews
