Brexit, Briefly
Britain is leaving the European Union... or maybe not? Let's place some odds on what might or might not happen with Brexit. Discuss this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/CGPGrey/comments/4sygwf/...
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Brexit! The British exit from the European Union. It's a thing that's happening – or maybe not. Or maybe the United Kingdom is falling apart. There's a lot going on, so let's talk about Brexit, briefly. First: How'd we get here? In the UK, voters for UKIP—the UK Independence Party— grew in number over the last few elections. Now, because the United Kingdom uses a terrible first-past-the-post voting system, UKIP, rather than getting a proportional number of seats in Parliament, largely drained votes from the Conservative Party. So, in the 2015 election, Conservatives promised to hold an in-or-out referendum on the EU if they won, presumably to try and sway UKIP voters to their side. The Conservatives did win, in what was, by th...
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Brexit! The British exit from the European Union. It's a thing that's happening – or maybe not. Or maybe the United Kingdom is falling apart. There's a lot going on, so let's talk about Brexit, briefly. First: How'd we get here? In the UK, voters for UKIP—the UK Independence Party— grew in number over the last few elections. Now, because the United Kingdom uses a terrible first-past-the-post voting system, UKIP, rather than getting a proportional number of seats in Parliament, largely drained votes from the Conservative Party. So, in the 2015 election, Conservatives promised to hold an in-or-out referendum on the EU if they won, presumably to try and sway UKIP voters to their side. The Conservatives did win, in what was, by th...
