What’s Brexit?

So given the monumental moment in British history, it’s difficult to avoid Brexit.

My son recently exclaimed, “I know what the vote is about. They are deciding if anyone needs to leave the U.K.”

Obviously our discussion about Brexit hadn’t been as clear as we thought.

But how to explain it to an eight year old?

The U.K. doesn’t want to follow Europe’s rules any more.

Mum, I don’t like following your rules, can I brexit?

People were concerned about the number of people coming to the U.K.

But mum, you’re not from here. Do you need to go home?

So now they are having to make a plan about how we leave.

My husband drew an analogy to rugby. I thought it might be about redesigning the rules of the game, but he went down the road of we’d been playing on the same team as the EU, now we want to be our own team, so we might need to see if anyone wants to join us to make up the numbers…

Ok, can I watch tv now?