The UK is a kingdom divided these days, and it’s harder and harder to see a satisfying way out of the problem with every passing day.
The United Kingdom’s opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn of the Labour Party, announced that his party will support a second referendum on the Brexit issue – the decision of the UK to exit the European Union. That announcement has been a long time coming. The majority of Corbyn’s party was opposed to leaving the EU, but Corbyn himself has been a critic of the EU for decades.
It shows the unlikely alliances that have formed since the Brexit vote, and the scrambling of Britain’s usual political system. There were members of both the Conservative Party and the Labour Party on both sides of the issue.
Prime Minister Theresa May of the Conservative Party was actually a supporter of staying in the Union, but is now tasked with shepherding the country through the process of the divorce. Jeremy Corbyn was a supporter of Leave, but is now put into the position of opposing the government’s Brexit plans.
Plans for the withdrawal are… not going well. Ambiguity and chaos still reign as much as Queen Elizabeth.
