Brexit Analysis

The Brexit was a tragic experience that couldn’t be altered anymore, mainly if the new UK prime minister’s stance on the matter is to respect the majority vote. Tragic, because it’s akin to witnessing the first months of an erring, newly elected populist leader, as a lot of Brits seemed to have felt its horrible aftereffects even though the EU divorce remains a nascent idea since it has yet to be finalised. On social media, there were Leavers who admitted that their vote had been given impulsively and without really understanding its full extent and possible repercussions. It sounds nationalistic to do so, some said, and this carelessly embraced credence is amongst the reason why the Remainers end up on the losing side.

Chauvinism, or overstated patriotism, may be one of the strongest forces behind the Leave vote. Hostility towards immigrants and immigration, xenophobia, Euroscepticism, antagonism

There were autonomists in suit who sided with them, too. Many of them found comfort in hiding their disdain for immigration through politics. And this has paved the way for political elitism, since the country’s two giant parties believe that Brexit isn’t only an aggressive move but also expensive, drastic, and laborious. People are fed up of this domination, and they wanted something new, something that gives voice to anything these parties do not embody.

Many political analysts believe that the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) forced, if not encouraged, then-Prime Minister David Cameron to give the referendum a try. They have become the voice of the disgruntled masses in the government, and when we say disgruntled masses we are talking about the people angered by the failed economic reforms in the past. In other words, the working class, the poor, the unemployed. They needed something new to believe in—a radical ideology against the status quo, and that was, and still is, the