The Dummies Guide to #Brexit, #BrexitDay and what it all means for the rest of us

Yesterday, the UK Prime Minister, Theresa May sent the letter that formally notifies the European Council of Britain’s desire to exit the European Union : the Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty which contains all the guidelines that the UK has to abide by to successfully leave the EU.

[Remember: We already went through a guide to understanding #Brexit]

But what does it really mean and why was there so much fuss if all of these things were already known? It’s because new factors that the British populace – especially the Leave voters –  maybe did not believe will start to happen have now begun to manifest.

You know, like when you do everything to make something happen but you just cannot believe it when it does happen?

I mean, look at this guy:

So essentially what has happened now is that May’s letter to Donald Tusk, the President of the Union in Brussels – where the EU headquarters is and where the European Council (consisting of the heads of government of all 28 EU members meet) – has officially notified the Union of their desire to leave.

Now, the trade negotiations, immigration policies, environmental policies, compromises or recuperation of financial contributions that Britain already made towards Union projects, collaborative security measures between the Union and Britain and literally everything that will affect the UK moving forward as a European country that no longer belongs to the most powerful European Economic bloc. Scratch that, the most powerful economic bloc in the world.

Also, within Britain, the Leave voters and their patrons will have to start making good on the pre-referendum promises that they made. For instance, it’ll be interesting to see how they intend to pull off the weekly pledge to give €350 million to the NHS.

All of these have to happen in the next two years too as Britain is now billed to leave the EU by the end of March 2019.

As the PM said: “This is a historic moment from which there can be no turning back”.

And it’s true there’s no turning back. In two years, the House of Commons and House of Lord will be given another vote on whatever deals that the EU and UK have agreed on and on the real Brexit day when talks are over or the two years are up, the Great Repeal Bill will come into force.

The Great Repeal Bill?

yeah, that’s the one that esentially converts all EU Laws to which Britain may or may not be subject to right now into UK laws – all the many thousands of them. THE WEEK says there are over 52,741 of them with 6,718 new ones passed since 2010 alomne that actually apply to the UK!

Brexit Secretary, David Davis already unveiled a White Paper for the Great Repeal Bill that will overturn the European Communities Act.

The whole point of it is to place al EU Laws as they currently are, in the UK Statute books so that they will be easy to repeal or amnd once Brexit is final.

The Bill may be passed ahead of Brexit but it will only take effect on the day Brexit happens.

The short story for all of these is that we’ll still be hearing and seeing the #Brexit around for a bit longer.

What does it all mean for the rest of the world, Nigeria inclusive?

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The Leave politicians like Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage have all said that Brexit means that the UK can now finally take charge of it’s own destiny and make it’s own laws without being buoyed down by EU bureaucracy from Brussels and that Britain will take charge of immigration fully by having total control over it’s own borders.

All possibly true, however the truth remains that the UK will then need someone to trade with, levellers of sorts having been one of the main super powers for so long – and not without EU support.

There are already talks about a Commonwealth alliance being the next big thing; even bigger than the EU and of course, Britain will spearhead that. But how feasible is this?

True, it will be cross-continental and way bigger than the 28 member EU with Britain at the top dictating most of the terms for its former colonies. But what country will be willing to join an alliance where they go in as the weaker links right off the ground?

It’s 2017, not 1914. The answer is NO!

And speaking of Africa, we still have yet to fully sort out our African Union completely.

With that out of the picture, what it looks like is that we’ll see a stronger Britain after Brexit that can take charge of all of her own affairs and restrict movement in and out of its borders as much as it wants. But will it still be a Britain that wields as much power as it did as far as world politics go?

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