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Sixty Brexits

59 images Created 28 Jan 2020

Three and a half years. From the referendum vote itself on 23rd June 2016 to the 31st January 2020, when the UK legally left the European Union. Westminster has seen rallies and protests, confrontations and harassment, and three Prime Ministers.

Not in any date order, this work of 60 pictures represents my time spent at the 'barricades', trying to be present in around the capital to see how such wild political upheaval has manifested itself on the streets around parliament.

(To be updated on the 31st January).

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  • On polling day of the UK's EU (European Union) Referendum Day, voters exit the Polling Station in Dulwich Village, on 23rd June 2016, in south London, United Kingdom.
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  • A Say Yes to Something message on the outside of a closed pub, on 8th January 2019, in Ramsgate, Kent, England. The Port of Ramsgate has been identified as a 'Brexit Port' by the government of Prime Minister Theresa May, currently negotiating the UK's exit from the EU. Britain's Department of Transport has awarded to an unproven shipping company, Seaborne Freight, to provide run roll-on roll-off ferry services to the road haulage industry between Ostend and the Kent port - in the event of more likely No Deal Brexit. In the EU referendum of 2016, people in Kent voted strongly in favour of leaving the European Union with 59% voting to leave and 41% to remain.
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  • A lone wet tourist stands overlooking the River Thames from London's Southbank, enduring heavy summer rainfall in the capital.
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  • Thousands of British voters march through London to protest against the referendum decision to leave the EU (Brexit) on 2nd July 2016, in London UK. Demonstrators at the "March for Europe" rally, which was organised on social media walked from Park Lane into the heart of the UK government in Westminster to send a message of dissatisfaction in the referendum result. More than 46.5 million people voted in the referendum on 23 June, which resulted in the UK voting by 51.9% to 49.1% to withdraw from the EU.
    anti_brexit_march-08-02-07-2016.jpg
  • An EU flag is waved in front of the British parliament as the British government debated US President Donald Trump's state visit to the UK, thousands of protesters gathered in large numbers against the trip which would potentially cost millions of Pounds in security alone, on 20th February 2017, in Parliament Square, London, UK. The visit comes after two online petitions received more than the 100,000 signatures required for such a debate to be considered in Parliament. A petition against the state visit got 1.85m signatures, while one supporting it got 311,000. Campaigners protested against the "hatred, racism and division that Donald Trump is trying to create". Prime Minister Theresa May announced the state visit during her visit to Washington in January.
    trump_protest-16-20-02-2017.jpg
  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May meets with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn in an attempt to break the Brexit deadlock in parliament, an EU-flag has been snagged in the branches of plain trees outside parliament in Westminster, on 3rd April 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-07-03-04-2019.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May again meets opposition Labour leader Jreemy Corbyn in an attempt to break the deadlock in parliament of Brexit, pro-EU protestors stand opposite parliament in Westminster, on 4th April 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-01-04-04-2019.jpg
  • On the day that the UK was originally scheduled to leave the EU Prime Minister Theresa May also suffered her third vote defeat, bringing a No Deal Brexit ever closer and Leave Brexiteers protested outside parliament in Westminster, on 29th March 2019, in London, England.
    march_to_leave_protest-57-29-03-2019.jpg
  • Remain protesters (pro-EU) listen to Prime Minister Theresa May in Westminster after the result of MPs' Meaningfull Brexit vote which eventually brought about a massive defeat for her Brussels deal, on 15th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-64-15-01-2019.jpg
  • The current Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Boris Johnson speaks via TV screen to visitors during a tour of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), on 17th September 2017, in Whitehall, London, England. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson PC MP (1964-), known as Boris Johnson, is a divisive British politician whose campaigning led to the UK Brexit vote.
    foreign_office-19-17-09-2017.jpg
  • A Remain protester holds a William Rees-Mogg unicorn parody in Westminster before the result of MPs' Meaningfull Brexit vote which eventually brought about a massive defeat for Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative government, on 15th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-41-15-01-2019.jpg
  • As the EU's Chief negotiator Michel Barnier meets Theresa May in London to discuss the next stage of Brexit, anti-Brexit protesters hold the stars of the EU flag in Whitehall at the entrance of Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister, on 5th February 2018, in London England.
    eu_flags-03-05-02-2018.jpg
  • Pro-Europe protesters display the EU flag in front of Parliament and a passing tour bus after the last chimes of Big Ben were controversially silenced by the repair project that is scheduled to be completed by 2021, on 21st August 2017, in London, England.
    last_bongs-12-21-08-2017.jpg
  • On the day that Members of Parliament sat on a Saturday (the first time in 37 years and dubbed 'Super Saturday') in order to vote for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal with the EU in Brussels, a Johnson and Dominic Cummings parody were wheeled through streets alongside a million Remainers (according to organisers) marched through the capital to voice their opposition to a Brexit and calling for a peoples' Vote, on 19th October 2019, in London, England.
    peoples_march-15-19-10-2019.jpg
  • The People’s Vote March For The Future on 20th October 2018 in London, United Kingdom. 650,000 people marched on Parliament to demand their democratic voice to be heard in a landmark demonstration billed as the most important protest of a generation. As the date of the UK’s Brexit from the European Union is ever closer, the protesters gathered in their tens of thousands to make political leaders take notice and to give the British public a vote on the final Brexit deal.
    peoples_vote_march-48-20-10-2018.jpg
  • As Prime Minister Theresa May tours European capitals hoping to persuade foreign leaders to accept a new Brexit deal (following her cancellation of a Parliamentary vote), pro-EU Remainers protest beneath the statue of King George V beneath Westminster Abbey and opposite the Houses of Parliament, on 11th December 2018, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-24-11-12-2018.jpg
  • As the vote of no confidence for Prime Minister Theresa May's leadership in the Conservative Party occurs because of her handling of the Brexit deal with the EU, her face and a headline quote referring to Margaret Thatcher appears on the front page of the London Evening Standard at the entrance of Westminster tube station opposite Parliament in Westminster, on 12th December 2018, in London, England.
    may_newspaper-02-12-12-2018.jpg
  • On the day that rebel Conservative Party rebels and opposition MPs attempt to pass a law designed to prevent a no-deal Brexit by the government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, his face appears on the cover of London Evening Standard newspaper copies, on 3rd September 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
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  • On the day that Prime Minister Theresa May's Meaningful Brexit vote is taken in the UK Parliament, Leave supporters protest at the railings of the House of Commons in Parliament Square on 15th January 2019, in Westminster, London, England.
    brexit_protest-19-15-01-2019.jpg
  • On the day that the UK was originally scheduled to leave the EU Prime Minister Theresa May also suffered her third vote defeat, bringing a No Deal Brexit ever closer and Leave Brexiteers protested outside parliament in Westminster, on 29th March 2019, in London, England.
    march_to_leave_protest-03-29-03-2019.jpg
  • On the day that Members of Parliament sat on a Saturday (the first time in 37 years and dubbed 'Super Saturday') in order to vote for Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit deal with the EU in Brussels, a million Remainers (according to organisers) marched through the capital to voice their opposition to a Brexit and calling for a peoples' Vote, on 19th October 2019, in London, England.
    peoples_march-62-19-10-2019.jpg
  • Seven days before the original for the UK to leave the EU, hundreds of thousands of Brexit protestors marched through central London calling for another EU referendum. Organisers of the "Put It To The People" campaign say more than a million people joined the march before rallying in front of Parliament, on 23rd March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-51-23-03-2019.jpg
  • Pro-EU Remainers celebrate EU membership by singing Ode To Joy during their 'party like there's no tomorrow' for one last time outside parliament, one day before Brexit Day (the date of 31st January 2020, when the UK legally exits the European Union), in Parliament Square, Westminster, on 30th January 2020, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-17-30-01-2020.jpg
  • Women from the Essex branch of the WASPI (Women's Action Against State Pension Injustice) protest on College Greeen in Westminster, the morning after another of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal votes failed again in Parliament, on 13th March 2019, in London, England.
    brexit_protest-24-13-03-2019.jpg
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