The Socio-Economic Impacts of the UK’s Exit from the EU amidst and after Brexit on the British Identity: From Royal Ascendancy to Commonwealth Ambivalence to Ethnic Dispersion, 2016-2020

Abstract

Because Brexit profoundly affected almost all aspects of the British life particularly the British society as the decision was finalized due to their votes, this dissertation aims at providing a historical overview of both the British identity and the European integration up to post-Brexit era to enumerate the British traits that pushed for Brexit. The final stage of this study includes enlisting and investigating the challenges in the face of a post-Brexit British identity and the factor for Britain to reach globalism. This research thus uses a humanistic approach where qualitative and descriptive methods are employed to collect, describe and analyze data from speeches, books and articles. Findings in this study encompass the unrest of Britishness since the collapse of the British Empire and then the introduction of the European Integration. The Brexit results confirmed this turbulence when the majority of positive votes on Brexit were English. This research corroborated the interdependent relation between the British politics, economy, and society which entails that Brexit is a plan which has been changing the nation’s politics, economics, industry, domestic affairs, and the British identity. The conclusion drawn from this research is that the Brexit Deal calls for possible dispersion of the everly known Britishness that it will be a combination of Europeanism, Americanism, and mainly Englishness because of the universality of the English language that will ride Britain toward globalization