Political Leaders Offer Rich Bounty To the British Voter Seeking Brexit

Brexit weary businessmen in England have been left with a deluge of options from different politicians.  All are trying to win the crowds ahead of an epic early election, which is now going to decide the fate of the Brexit saga that has been ringing the alleys of Britain for close to three years.

It been status quo since Britons voted to leave the EU. Uncertaintyover Brexitcontinues to persist as negotiations over the U.K.’s future are unclear even after it exits the EU. Opposition parties arepushing for another referendum on whether to leave at all. Theresa May lost her seat to 10 Downing Street and Boris Johnson has been forced to go through the motion of another election.

If Boris Johnson wins, his center-right Conservatives will be in majority large enough to push his Brexit deal through Parliament. The British economy is getting the hit as much as uncertainty marks the future of European Union, with so many of them depending on England as centres of business. 

Many businesses therefore do anticipate a disruption of supply chains and export markets due to Brexit and don’t know what a future EU-U.K. relationship will look like. The economy is said to have shrunk in the second quarter and grew in the third at its slowest annual pace in almost a decade. Business investment has stalled, and firms have built up stockpiles of materials and components ahead of each new deadline, only to run them down again once the risk of an abrupt break has passed.

Jeremy Corbyn is a strong contendor to Boris Johnson. He is left-wing leader of the main opposition Labour Party. His party’s Brexit proposal aims to keep the U.K. within the bloc’s customs territory and closely tied to its economic rule-book. This will make it easier for businesses to trade with EU markets. Corbyn is keeping the business dependency on the Britain market, well in mind. Labour also wants the public to vote again on whether to leave on such terms or keep the U.K. a fully-fledged member state.

It shows Jeremy has a more ‘workable plan’ than Johnson. Strangely, opinion polls speak otherwise. They are suggesting Johnson certainty to win the ballot, with a majority of seats in the 650-seat legislature.

Another contender is Jo Swinson, leader of the Liberal Democrats, the third-largest national party fighting the election. Swinson center-left party has plans of reversing Brexit immediately saying leaving the EU would wreck the economy.

Corbyn pledged for “an investment blitz” could boost the economy outside the capital. His party is running on its most radical economic platform in years, with plans to nationalize swaths of industry, including rail, water and broadband.

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