Eleftherios Jerry Floros
4 min readJun 9, 2017

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MaydayBrexit is sinking !

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Britain voted again and the surprising results sent again shockwaves throughout the country, Europe and beyond.

Prime Minister Mrs May took a big gamble by calling a snap election which totally backfired and has caused “mayhem” to the political establishment.. Instead of holding on to the Conservatives majority until 2020, she was hoping to get a stronger mandate through this snap election but failed completely and is now trying to form a coalition with Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party. The LibDems have already stated that they would not form a coalition government so May’s last hope is a alliance with the DUP.

Although the election results were a disaster, the Conservatives still managed to garner 318 seats and thus very close to the majority threshold of 326 seats.

This snap election tactic is somehow a reminder of David Cameron’s attempt to put the Brexit referendum to a public vote thinking that it would be just a matter of formality and surely the majority would vote for remain however that did not materialise.

The Brexit vote ended David Cameron’s political career and this snap election will probably end Prime Minister Mrs. May political career as well.

UKIP Paul Nuttal already resigned today after not gaining a single seat in the new coalition government that has yet to be formed.

SNP Nicola Sturgeon also suffered humiliation after her party lost 21 of the 56 seats — including those of Alex Salmond…

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Eleftherios Jerry Floros

Passionate about FinTech, Decentralised Finance, and Digital Disruption which will profoundly impact the global economy as well as our personal lives