Explaining brexit whilst living abroad.

[halfwitpicker]

Can someone explain to me in simple terms what is happening with brexit? I live in Canada and people keeping asking me and I don't know what to tell them as I'm not that up to date.

I know Theresa May is in discussions at the moment, but for what, exactly?

Questions people have asked me :

Will there be a revote? Could they even revote?
What will happen if they do 'brexit'? They leave the EU?
What's the feeling 'on the street' as it were? Are people regretting their votes?

We're leaving the EU on 29th March and will be entering a 2 year transitional period during which we, hopefully, will agree free trade agreements and other matters.

TMay has come to a Withdrawal Agreement with the EU to cover this 2 year period. Now she has to get Parliament to agree it. The Labour Party, Lib Dems, SNP and DUP are threatening to vote against it as are many of the Tories. It's likely the vote will go against her on 11th Dec.

Will there be a revote? Could they even revote?

We would have to get the EU to extend the 29th March deadline for another referendum or a General Election. They have said they will - they don't want us to leave.

No-one has any idea what's going to happen. The two possible ways back are a second referendum and Parliament simply getting its act together and asking the EU if we can please stop the process of leaving. People in favour of leaving would then probably go all 'gilets jaunes' on us, but that's a whole other thing.

What's the feeling 'on the street' as it were? Are people regretting their votes?

Polls are all over the place so we can't guess what the outcome will be. Leavers are reluctant to say if they regret their vote - but lots of them have died over the pay 2 and a half years so Remain needs to get the apathetic youth voters off their backside and into the polling booths.

Good summary Damn & Responsible!

😂 to gilet jaunes - could you imagine! It really would kick off...

Brexit has been truly stuffed up. We wanted out and we've been strung along.

I don't actually know any remoaners, everyone I know wants Brexit.

Country is massively split - PP doesn’t know anyone who didn’t vote for Brexit. I only know one person who has admitted to voting leave.

I accept that the people voted leave. I am furious about the lies that were told during the campaign.

I have no clue what is happening with Brexit. I don't think anyone does.

Country is hugely divided.

TM has her proposal. No one likes it and her cabinet keep quitting because of it. It has a marginal chance of passing in parliament. If it doesn't pass, she'll realistically have to quit and someone else will have to renegotiate with EU. EU have already said it's take it or leave it.

There were many reasons people voted to leave, however the financial argument has shown to be built on a foundation of fog. All scenarios suggest a worse economic position. Leavers have dismissed this as "possibilities not predictions", ironic given that was the whole underpinning of their campaign. But I digress.

View on the street comes in 3 forms - Hard brexit (just get out); resigned brexit (do what you can, but can we just end this); "people's vote" (do-over of referendum, based less on accusations of misleading and Russian influenced campaigns, and more on a view that we have a choice between 2 knowns now; not a known and a theory).

Thanks for all the replies, now I won't appear such an idiot!

We don't get a transition period if the withdrawal agreement doesn't go through.
With no withdrawal agreement we get to crash out with no deal. Which would be a fucking catastrophe. A proper catastrophe.

I don't know anyone who voted leave. I voted remain but accept it's a democracy, however decisions and votes shouldn't be based on the lies we were told. I think it's going to cost too much and to what gain? I think a lot of people voted without enough information/ research.