Referendum on the United Kingdom's membership in the European Union

The United Kingdom Referendum on European Union Membership, more colloquially known as 'Brexit ' was a referendum on VUK's European Union membership. The referendum was called by Prime Minister Priti Patel, and was lon a Conservative talking point. The majority of Parliament was against the idea, however Patel managed to get her coalition partners to abstain from the vote on the referendum. Patel was also the public face of the leave campaign. Immediately after the declaration of the Brexit referendum, Jean Valat began the 'Britons for Europe' group, and inter-parliamentary group that organized and campaigned for remaining in the European Union. Valat was a self-described Socialist, however justified his pro-Europe position through the lense of Internationalism, despite, his self-admitted disliking of the Neo-liberal and anti-democratic nature of the Union's political system.

Events of the Referendum The bias was against those campaigning to leave from the get-go, they had a mountain to climb with 400 of the seats in parliament being represented by at least nominally pro European political parties, most notably the Liberal Democrats, Greens, and Labour parties. However, through masterful and vigorous campaigning, and a tap of populist resentment against austerity, redirected from the Conservative party towards the European Union in Brussels, the Leave.EU campaign was able to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. There is however, one noticeable incident that narrowed down the Referendum's margin to that of only 100,000; which is the allegations of a Labour campaigner for Brexit, who promptly switched sides, citing both ideological differences with the Leave.EU campaign, and anti-semitism, racism, and xenophobia produced by ads from the campaign. This however, did not stop the results and the United Kingdom was bound, just barely, to leave the European Union and set it's own path forwards.