And just like that, Albion reasserts its sovereignty

Now, here's a history-making development if I ever saw one:

Members of Parliament have just voted overwhelmingly to approve Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Brexit plan by a vote of 358 to 234.

Brexit's approval was widely expected following the conservative victory in the UK election last week.

Brexit has been in gridlock for over three years. Former Prime Minister Theresa May has made several failed attempts to get Brexit through Parliament since the country voted in favor of Brexit in 2016. May ultimately failed to get a deal through, and she resigned in May over her inability to broker a deal that could win a majority of Parliament.

According to the Associated Press, the departure of the UK from the EU "will open a new phase of Brexit, as Britain and the EU race to strike new relationships for trade, security and host of other areas by the end of 2020."

Boris Johnson considered the vote a moment of closure. “The sorry story of the last 3 1/2 years will be at an end and we will be able to move forward together,” Johnson said. “This is a time when we move on and discard the old labels of ‘leave’ and ‘remain.’ Now is the time to act together as one reinvigorated nation.”

Why has this occurred in such a resolute and brisk-paced manner after the ultimately failed grind that May put the nation through? There will be no shortage of analysis of the matter, but a short answer that occurs to me presently is that she was too accommodating, trying to dot everyone's i's and cross their t's. She just couldn't muster the nerve to make the clean break with Brussels. She took a simple sentiment that most of the Queen's subjects were on board with - leaving the EU - and bogged it down with complications to avoid possible ruffled feathers.

Brits like their leaders to act resolutely on decisions.