Blockades and ballots: A wild day in the post-Brexit U.K. – Axios

British naval vessels dispatched to break a French blockade, Scottish nationalists attempting to break away from the U.K., and working class voters in the northeast breaking for the Conservatives after voting Labour for six decades.

Why it matters: That was just one day in the topsy turvy reality of post-Brexit Britain.

Polls have just closed in what Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called the "most important election in our lifetime."

80 miles south of the Scottish border, in Hartlepool, Johnsons Conservatives are poised to pick up a seat that has been held by Labour since 1964.

The Brexit aftermath has been less kind to Arlene Foster, who resigned last week as First Minister of Northern Ireland.

One scene few would have predicted is a confrontation in the English Channel between two stalwart allies.

Between the lines: Fishing rights took on a major symbolic status during the Brexit fight. Johnson has also long vowed that post-Brexit Britain would flex its muscles internationally.

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Blockades and ballots: A wild day in the post-Brexit U.K. - Axios