Freedom is a choice, because in this world everyone is a prisoner of a particular thing that locks him or her up in jail. Retrospectively or on the contrary, it does not mean a physical jail as when a real crime is committed against the government and one is placed in a correctional facility, pending the hearing of such person’s case.

The question is: when are we actually free? In my own words, we are free when we don’t live our life dependently on things of this world as if our lives depend on it.

Great Britain has fought for freedom for years and they are still fighting for it: freedom to stand independently as a nation, by exiting the European Union (EU), tagged BREXIT. But, the request has not been granted by the congress of European Union. Although someday they’d celebrate a fresh independence, because on the day that request is granted, then a new and fresh independence would be celebrated by Great Britain or the United Kingdom, as you may call them.

The fight started during the tenure of Theresa May as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and she fought for it with every power left in her, but all to no avail. She was also leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. May served as Home Secretary from 2010 to 2016 in Donald Cameron’s government and has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidenhead, Berkshire, since 1997. Ideologically, she identifies herself as a one-nation conservative.

On March 29, 2017, the British Government formally began the withdrawal process by invoking Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, with permission from parliament. May called a snap general election in June 2017, which resulted in a Conservative minority government supported by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).

The European Union never wanted Great Britain to exit, because of the advantageous ways of trade with other interconnected European countries over many years ago. Great Britain, we cannot say, are jealous of the United States of America’s autonomous rule over the world. After the industrial revolution in China, you still cannot take that power that resides in America away from her, because since inception they have been ruling the world; that is the basic assumption of majority of the world populace. Let us take the jealousy context out of it hyperbolically; it is advantageous on the path of the United Kingdom if they are independent. First, the currency spent in the United Kingdom is Pounds Sterling, the question is: why is it not Euro? Well, you know the answer to that.

There are other factors like being totally independent and survive on your own without the help of anyone or dependent on anything for survival. The bogus claims of the European Union on the exit of Great Britain is that they know what is at stake; and the loss they will incur in the short/long run as to the movement of other European countries into Great Britain would have new restrictions and also new policies be set if they succeed in completely pulling out of the European Union.

•Mike-Nifty, a public affairs analyst, can be reached via niity.mics@yahoo.com