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November 9:Trump predicted 'Brexit plus plus plus,' and he was
right ... A new "Special Relationship" between Britain and
the US has emerged: the relationship between Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/09/politics/donald-trump-farage-us-election-brexit/index.html -- 2017 --
Back to top June 1:
Donald Trump’s white nationalist campaign attracted anti-immigrant, pro-Russia
politicians from across Europe. In particular “Brexit” leader Nigel Farage, the
proudly racist and sexist former head of the nationalist UK Independence Party,
made an unprecedented trans-Atlantic push for Trump. Farage attended the
Republican convention, did media appearances to support Trump, joined in raising
the rabble at Trump rallies, and even defended Trump’s ugly Access Hollywood
statements as just the bragging of an “alpha male.” Farage is also an admirer of
Trump adviser Steve Bannon, with a Breitbart-friendly relationship that extends
back at least three years. And now Trump and Farage have
something else in common:
Nigel Farage is a “person of interest” in the US counter-intelligence
investigation that is looking into possible collusion between the Kremlin and
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, the Guardian has been told.
Farage says he’s never even been to Russia … though he refuses to say if he’s
received payment from RT or other Russian state media. Farage has met with
Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, with Assange-friendly whackadoodle Roger
Stone, and seems to have just incidentally been involved with a lot of people
whose names keep showing up on the FBI radar.
“He’s right in the middle of these relationships. He turns up over and over
again. There’s a lot of attention being paid to him.”
Farage has some recent FBI experience. In July, the FBI
nabbed Farage’s top aide, for laundering drug money through the dark net.
October 25: Michael Bloomberg says Brexit is
‘single stupidest’ thing a country has ever done … besides Trump
"It is really hard to understand why a country that was doing so well wanted to
ruin it," he added. "My former wife was a Brit, my daughters have British
passports, so we love England – it's the father of our country, I suppose. But
what they are doing is not good and there is no easy ways to get out of it
because if they don't pay a penalty, everyone else would drop out. So they can't
get as good of a deal as they had before," he said.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/25/michael-bloomberg-says-brexit-is-single-stupidest-thing-a-country-has-ever-done-besides-trump.html
January 8:Donald Trump and Brexit are
no longer identical twins ... Britain’s approach to
the world more closely tracks the EU than America
The Brexit vote and the election of Donald Trump will forever be linked in
history. The two events took place within a few months of each other. Both were
populist revolts that appealed to similar constituencies.
But,
as the months have passed, it has become clear that Trump and Brexit are
not, in fact, identical twins. They are more like distant relations who are
growing further apart with the passage of time.
https://www.ft.com/content/214ca7da-f455-11e7-88f7-5465a6ce1a00
January 28:President Trump said he predicted Britons would vote in 2016 to leave the
European Union because of their concerns about immigrants streaming into the
country from around the world.
“I said [that] because of trade, but mostly immigration, Brexit is going to be a
big upset. And I was right,” Trump said in an interview that will air Sunday
evening on British channel ITV. “I know the British people and understand them.”
January 29:Trump and Brexit
have triggered two deep constitutional crises
Two years ago, a Trump presidency and a vote for Brexit were considered all but
unthinkable. Now, two of the world’s oldest democracies are struggling to live
with them, and their struggles are even more profound than they seem. The depth
of these crises is masked by what might be termed “mere politics”: beneath the
dissonance of day-to-day politicking, the constitutions of two representative
democracies are being fundamentally challenged.
https://theconversation.com/trump-and-brexit-have-triggered-two-deep-constitutional-crises-90707
January 29:EU warn they will react 'swiftly' to any Trump
trade curbs as Brussels reacts to President's Brexit comments during Piers
Morgan interview
April 18:
The UK Government has lost a key Brexit vote, with the upper House of Parliament
backing calls to remain in the EU customs union after Brexit.
June 16: Leading
Brexit Campaigner Apparently Passed Documents on U.S. Probe into George Cottrell
to the Russians
A top Brexit campaigner, who met repeatedly with Russian officials, appeared to
share details of the indictment of George Cottrell, a dark web operator working
for the campaign.
The papers, which detailed a probe into dark web money laundering, were
apparently shared with the Russian embassy in London by Leave.EU executive Andy
Wigmore. They concerned the arrest of Brexit financier George Cottrell, who was
seized at an airport on the way home from the Republican convention in 2016
where Donald Trump had just been nominated as the presidential candidate.
June 28:
How the 'Bad Boys of Brexit' forged ties
with Russia and the Trump campaign and came under scrutiny
On Aug. 19, 2016, Arron Banks, a
wealthy British businessman, sat down at the palatial residence of the Russian
ambassador to London for a lunch of wild halibut and Belevskaya pastila apple
sweets accompanied by Russian white wine.
July 9: The government of British Prime
Minister Theresa May has been plunged into turmoil with the resignation of two
senior Cabinet ministers in a deep split over her Brexit strategy.
The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, quit on Monday, hours after the
resignation late on Sunday night of the minister in charge of Brexit
negotiations, David Davis. A third member of the government, Steve Baker, a
junior minister in Davis' Department for Exiting the European Union, also
resigned.
July 13: Does Trump’s Sun
interview signal the end of diplomacy?
On page after page, the US president lobs lurid insults at Theresa May. But it
may turn out that he’s done her a favour
... Donald Trump, straight-talking disruptor-in-chief, grants an
interview to the Sun, a newspaper in so many ways the US president’s natural
forum. The interviewer’s 10-minute slot stretches to 28; the interviewee is
clearly enjoying himself, and the resulting headlines – “May has wrecked Brexit”,
“US trade deal is off” – appear slap-bang in the middle of the prime minister’s
grand opening effort to convince him of the contrary.
The insults continued for page after lurid page, including dismissive comments
about the prime minister’s new plan for Brexit (“I think the deal is not what
the people voted on”); about Theresa May’s conduct of the negotiations (“I
actually told Theresa May how to do it, but she didn’t listen to me … she wanted
to go a different route”); and – dear, oh dear – about the “very talented guy”,
Boris Johnson, who “would be “a great prime minister”, whom he was
“surprised and saddened” to see leaving government.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/13/donald-trump-sun-diplomacy-theresa-may-insults
September 25: The chances of Britain holding
a second referendum on Brexit just got higher.
Britain's opposition Labour party voted overwhelmingly Tuesday for a policy that
would put a new vote on the table if Prime Minister
Theresa May failed to get an eventual Brexit deal through the UK Parliament.
And Labour's Brexit spokesman, Keir Starmer, received rapturous applause at his
party's annual conference when he raised the prospect that staying in the
European Union would be on the ballot paper.
December 11: Buffeted By Brexit Woes,
Theresa May Embarks On Whirlwind European Tour
What happens to a deal deferred?
That's the question lingering like a storm cloud over the U.K. For weeks,
British lawmakers had eyed Tuesday with mounting anticipation. It was to be the
day Parliament voted on the draft Brexit deal, a pivotal test for Prime Minister
Theresa May's agreement with the European Union — until, all of a sudden,
it wasn't.
Now, after May postponed the vote, admitting the deal would have suffered a
resounding defeat, the embattled prime minister is hundreds of miles from the
Houses of Parliament. Instead, she's on the continent, trying to persuade her
counterparts in the EU to make the agreement more palatable for its many
skeptics in the U.K.
December 19: No-deal Brexit: Ireland worried
about food shortages
A no-deal Brexit -- where the UK crashes out of the European Union without a
transition plan in place -- could cause food and medicine shortages for its
closest neighbor, Ireland.
January 13: Brexit came in multiple forms
this week. The resignations of Brexit Secretary David Davis and Foreign
Secretary Boris Johnson a few days ago are a troubling sign of things to come.
These five facts explain how the political Brexit is shaping up to be so
disastrous.
http://time.com/5337408/brexit-theresa-may-eu-boris-johnson/
January
13:[Brexit quick summary] In December,
the House of Commons held five days of debate over the agreement secured by May
and European officials that covered the terms of the
British
withdrawal from the European Union -- but when it looked certain that her
plan would fail to get passed by MPs, she postponed the vote.
The U.K. voted in June 2016 to leave the EU by a majority of 52 to 48 percent.
But the question on the ballot did not specify what relationship Britons wanted
with the bloc, and so the last two years have been fraught with negotiation and
politicking.
May’s premiership has taken a battering, although she survived a vote of no
confidence in December after rebels in her Conservative Party plotted to
overthrow her through a party mechanism for triggering a leadership contest.
They failed, but in order to get MPs to back her, May promised she would not
fight the next general
election as leader.
But things are far from resolved in Westminster. A previous vote in the Commons
means that Parliament must have a vote on the deal with the EU. Having postponed
it in December, with hopes that spending Christmas with constituents and having
more time to reflect might mean that MPs would back her deal, May is now
fighting once again for Parliament to accept her plan.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/brexit-key-issues/story?id=59402693
January 14: As Tuesday's Brexit vote draws
closer, Theresa May is preparing to deliver a speech in the Commons later - you
can follow
that here.
Earlier today, in a speech in Stoke-on-Trent, she urged MPs to back her Brexit
deal "for the country's sake".
She warned of "paralysis in Parliament" if the deal is rejected and said trust
in politics would suffer "catastrophic harm" if the UK did not leave the EU.
Read more
here.
January
16: Brexit vote: Why the landslide defeat of Theresa
May's deal matters to the U.S.
The U.K. is the fourth largest export destination for American goods and
services. If there is no Brexit deal, a weakened British pound would make U.S.
goods more costly to buy in the U.K.
February
18: Seven lawmakers quit Labour Party citing Brexit
'betrayal', anti-Semitism
Seven Labour lawmakers quit on Monday over leader Jeremy Corbyn’s approach to
Brexit and a row over anti-Semitism, saying Britain’s main opposition party had
been “hijacked by the machine politics of the hard left”.
In a direct challenge to Corbyn, the seven centrist MPs said they were courting
others from across parliament to join their group, saying “enough is enough” in
keeping silent over their doubts about the Labour leader’s fitness for office.
United by a desire for a second referendum on Britain’s decision to leave the
European Union, they acknowledged that their resignations would not change the
arithmetic in parliament, where there is as yet no majority for such a vote.
https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-labour-idUSKCN1Q70LO
May 24:
Theresa May has said she will quit as Conservative leader on
7 June, paving the way for a contest to decide a new prime minister.
In an emotional statement, she said she had done her best to deliver Brexit and
it was a matter of "deep regret" that she had been unable to do so.
Mrs May said she would continue to serve as PM while a Conservative leadership
contest took place.
The party said it hoped a new leader could be in place by the end of July.
