{"id":46528,"date":"2023-10-08T04:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T04:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=46528"},"modified":"2023-10-08T04:29:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T04:29:14","slug":"economics-and-politics-brexit-part-1-why-did-brexit-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/economics-and-politics-brexit-part-1-why-did-brexit-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Economics and politics: Brexit, Part 1: Why did Brexit happen?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about European politics and economics: the tutor looks into Brexit.<\/h2>\n<p>\nApparently, The UK opted out of the EU because it rejected the EU&#8217;s economic policies, which EU members are all expected to follow. The British public, by a narrow majority it seems, believed that the thrifty measures adopted out of Brussels may not be to Britain&#8217;s benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\nPerhaps by way of example, in 2022, the UK&#8217;s budget deficit was 5.5% of GDP, whereas for EU it was 3.4%.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-kingdom\/government-budget\">tradingeconomics.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/2995521\/16349856\/2-21042023-AP-EN.pdf\/6c5d7d4d-1988-dd8b-ea8e-7af2f5049031#:~:text=In%20the%20euro%20area%20the,from%2088.0%25%20to%2084.0%25.\">ec.europa.eu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.essex.ac.uk\/research\/showcase\/why-britain-really-voted-to-leave-the-european-union\">essex.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about European politics and economics: the tutor looks into Brexit. Apparently, The UK opted out of the EU because it rejected the EU&#8217;s economic policies, which EU members are all expected to follow. The British public, by a narrow &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/economics-and-politics-brexit-part-1-why-did-brexit-happen\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Economics and politics: Brexit, Part 1: Why did Brexit happen?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46531,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46528\/revisions\/46531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}