Divided Kingdom

Tine Kolb
From Empire to Europe
2 min readJun 29, 2016

Britain was not unanimous Brexit election. Brexit supporter live in the south, the north is much more pro EU. The north of Britain, Northern Ireland and Scotland, agreed mainly to the Brexit, the South, England and Wales, mainly for it. While the English majority voted with 53.4 percent and the Welsh with 52.5 percent for a withdrawal from the EU, voted 62 percent of Scots and 55.8 per cent of Northern Ireland to remain in the community. Decisive for the outcome of the referendum were the electorate in England that provide 84 percent of the voters in the United Kingdom. Scotland and Northern Ireland think about now again on its independence.

The Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said after the announcement of the result that a new referendum in Scotland was very likely on the whereabouts in the UK. The obtained results in Scotland by circa 60% per EU whereabouts shows that the Scottish people see their future as part of the European Union. On June 25, the Scotland Government decided to prepare a referendum on independence. However, voting on the issue of Scottish independence are subject to the legislature of the United Kingdom. Sinn Féin, member of the Irish republican party, sees the time has come to Northern Ireland to unite it with the Republic of Ireland and thus to remain a member of the European Union. She therefore calls on the holding of the measures provided for in the Good Friday Agreement reunification referenda.

The mood in Britain is indescribable. Four days after the Brexit the little Iceland catapulted the big football nation England out of the European Championship. At the day after the EM-off for the English team grows political chaos.

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