Six years ago, the then Prime Minister Cameron announced the launch of the Brexit Referendum. Since then, the UK is increasingly revolving around themselves. A chronology of the events of 2013 to today.
23. January 2013: Prime Minister David Cameron announces a Referendum on British membership of the EU. So he wants to come to the EU rebels in his conservative party and at the same time, the anti-EU UKIP the Wind out of the sails. Cameron’s coalition partners, the Europe-friendly liberal Democrats, are strongly opposed to such a vote.
7. May 2015: The Tories, with Cameron at the helm to win the surprisingly, the absolute majority. Thus, the liberal divorce Democrats from the government. Now the promised Referendum is high on the To-do-list to the Prime Minister. He recommends to vote for remaining in the European Union. All opinion polls predict that the majority of the citizens of this recommendation will follow.
23. June 2016: The British voices. And Wake up the next day, dismayed. The surprising result: 52 percent of the votes for leaving the EU, only 48 percent for the whereabouts. Cameron has gambled and announces his resignation.
Cameron – May comes
13. July 2016: The former interior Minister Theresa May is the Tory party Chairman and new Prime Minister elected. She promises to lead the country out of the EU.
17. January 2017: In a keynote speech announcing the Prime Minister Theresa May that the UK from both the EU internal market as well as from the customs Union to leak.
29. March 2017: May be enough in Brussels, the official termination letter pursuant to article 50 of the EU Constitution. Thus, the two-year deadline for the withdrawal negotiations begin.
18. April 2017: The Prime Minister sets a surprisingly early elections. May hopes, a conservative majority in the house to expand, so the Brexit process more smoothly over the stage. Because their party is divided on the issue.
8. June 2017: Again wrong, the opinion of researchers: Anders, as predicted, lose the Conservatives in the lower house election, the absolute majority. May wins the party of the Northern Irish Protestants, the DUP to support their minority government.
19. June 2017: The official Brexit negotiations begin in Brussels. Quickly complicated negotiations. Much of what the British want rejects the EU than cherry-picking.
With and without documents: the negotiators from The EU (left) and UK (right), at 17. July 2017
Several of Brexit-a Hardliner to withdraw
6. July 2018: Theresa May gathered her entire Cabinet to a retreat at her country estate, Chequers. She swears by their Minister on the line of a “soft Brexit”. Immediately Brexit chief negotiator David Davis and Minister of foreign Affairs Boris Johnson to explain her resignation.
13. November 2018: the media reports that the Brexit-the UK and the EU on the draft of a withdrawal agreement, agreed. Two days later, several Ministers resign from Mays Cabinet, because you do not wish to support the agreement.
22. November 2018: London and Brussels agree on the design of the envisaged political Declaration on bilateral relations after the Brexit.
25. November 2018: The European Council approves the termination agreement and the Declaration on the future partnership with the United Kingdom. Now May is on the train.
One of the countless Brexit cartoons shows Theresa May on yaw rate
10. December 2018: Just one day before the scheduled vote in the house of Commons about the agreement announced May a shift. The reason is that she has no prospects for a majority in Parliament.
12. December 2018: Theresa May must, due to their Brexit-course a vote of censure on her duties as party leader. The fails: A majority of Tory MPs from speaking to her trust.
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