They strongly voted in favor of leaving the EU.
The Prime Minister then began negotiating with the rest of the EU on the term so f Brittain exiting?
WHY? Just announce you are pulling out on X date. Disconnect your monetary system and ramp up your own currency production... and then leave. Any nation in the EU that wishes to trade with you - they can negotiate their own “deal”
IT really is THAT simple. But when politicians (especially those who don’t REALLY want to do the will of their voters get involved... well - we have this situation.
There are a lot of details about a no deal brexit that are hard breaks. A remilitlarized border between northern ireland and the republic of ireland is the point of contention that is holding up the whole deal. The Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland - a center right party - has 12 mp’s that are the lifeline that keeps May in power and they say no to the deal May is offering. May wants to move the EU customs border to include Northern Ireland so the irish border problem is no longer a problem for the republic of Ireland but effectively moves Northern Ireland out of the UK tradewise. Northern Ireland does not want to be thrown to the EU wolves and sliced off of the UK like a rotten appendage. Lots of drama about the reiginiting of the warzone in Northern Ireland.