Brexit Flash Quiz - Brexit Flash Quiz The biggest news is...

September 28, 2016
Brexit Flash Quiz
- The biggest news is that Great Britain has voted to leave the UN
- Britain votes to no longer be great
- And perhaps not to be a United Kingdom
- What’s the broader context of all this and why should we care?
- What happened??? Why did they vote out?
- The whole thing is a fluke
- The current prime minister of Great Britain decided to have the referendum
to basically appease the members his own party
o When he came into power he said things to appease all people and so
he said that he would start a referendum
o People who don’t like the EU not people anti western civ or anti-
Europe
o There have been euroskeptics in Great Britain and throughout all of
Europe itself
o There has always been this group that said they want out of the EU, so
he said he will have a referendum and a vote
o He had no allusions that this would actually word
o He didn’t think it would even be close
o No biggie, but then accidentally became a biggie
o It was held Thursday June 23
 By 52%, the people of GB decided to leave the EU
 Referendum: single policy or single issue voted by the people
 A law or policy
 Doesn’t happen in US
 Pretty close to direct democracy
 If you live in California they have them all the time
 Its state to state
 US doesn’t do national referendums
 We don’t even do that for the presidents, we have the
electoral college for that
 Largest voter turn out in GB for the last 25 years
 72% turn out
 pro leave versus we should stay people
 gotten really nasty
 looks very much like a US presidential election—lasts
forever, people go crazy

September 28, 2016
 there are a significant portion of Euroskeptic people in GB
 there are people who don’t want to be in it all over
 GB, Latvia, and Iceland have had a fairly large Euroskeptic
group
 So why?
 There are those in Europe and in GB who believe that the
EU is not that democratic
 Different people different religions different ethnicities
 They don’t feel represented by this bureaucracy
 Many felt that their tax dollars were going too far away to
issues they don’t care about
 Paying all this money for policies they don’t agree with
 The one specific issue that became the hot button issue is
immigration
 Sub sahara Africa and north Africa
 Immigration has always been an issue and exaggerated by the
Syrian refugees
 The british people dont want to have to take Syrian people in
based on what the EU said they had to do even though they
didn’t want to do it
o When David Cameron put this forward a couple of years ago no one
thought it would actually pass, even the people who were pro-leave
didn’t think they were gonna win
o He himself is pro-EU and he campaigned to stay in EU and he lost
o No one on either side thought that it would pass
o No one has any plans and no one knows what’s going on and that’s
why there is so much chaos
o The government has no plan and the pro-leave people have no plan
either
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