Friday, April 2, 2021

B is for Brexit

This year for the A-to-Z Challenge, I'll be looking at major events that happened in 2020 [the year we would all like to forget, so let's look at it first, before flushing it down the toilet].

Welcome to B!  Today we're looking at – BREXIT.

On January 31, 2020, the United Kingdom [Great Britain which includes England, Scotland, and Wales, along with Northern Ireland] withdrew from the European Union.  This is the result of a referendum in June 2016 when the citizens of UK voted 52% to 48% to leave the EU.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EU_slide_timeline_post-Brexit_partnership_negotiations.png

Major changes:
1. Rules of travel [passports, visas] between the UK and EU countries
2. Immigration between UK and EU countries
3. Economy, trade, and commerce – money, customs, import taxes, duty-free shopping

If you're interested in researching more of the effect of Brexit, here are two good sites:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-32810887

Do you live in UK?  Let us know in the comments how Brexit has affected you.

Here's a teaser for tomorrow, letter C [no groaning allowed]:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Novel_Coronavirus_SARS-CoV-2.jpg


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7 comments:

  1. Craig FApril 2, 2021 at 6:06 AM

    Just a little groan, please. It would an almost easy fix if it wasn't a political beast.

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  2. Craig FApril 2, 2021 at 5:32 PM

    Oh, this one is about Brexit, sorry. Brexit is just a sign of the disturbing problem of the rise of Populism.

    It has happened in too many places to be coincidence. Perhaps we have been lucky that the current breed of Populists is pretty close to incompetent. Boris Johnson is one of them and it took him four years to do not much more than mess it up worse.

    I hope it doesn't do too much damage to the economies of Europe, now is a strenuous enough time.

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    1. Dena PawlingApril 3, 2021 at 7:33 AM

      This is an interesting take on it, but I do agree with you that I hope it doesn't do too much damage to European economics. We've all had a rough go of it this past year.

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  3. JanetApril 3, 2021 at 4:47 PM

    I think I have enough to worry about in my own crazy country to worry about something across the sea. Thankfully I think we might be getting back on track.

    Janet’s Smiles

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    1. Dena PawlingApril 3, 2021 at 7:24 PM

      It seems like almost every country has its problems right now. Hopefully things are starting to improve everywhere.

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  4. AJ BlytheApril 4, 2021 at 4:51 AM

    I guess in a few years we'll see whether or not it was a good idea for the UK or not. I think at the moment covid is skewing everything.

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    1. Dena PawlingApril 4, 2021 at 9:18 AM

      I think you're probably right. But in 1-2 years we'll hopefully be done with COVID for the most part, and can get on with other things.

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