[quote]Prime Minister Theresa May is to officially notify the European Union next Wednesday that the UK is leaving.
Downing Street said she would write a letter to the EU's 27 other members, adding that it expected negotiations to then begin as quickly as possible.
The move comes nine months after people voted 51.9% to 48.1% in a referendum.
Talks on the terms of the departure and future relations are not allowed under the Article 50 process until the UK formally tells the EU it is leaving.
If all goes according to the two year negotiations set out in the official timetable, Brexit should happen in March 2019.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39325561[/url]
oh boy
This still feels like a bad fever dream tbh
RIP us then.
I still don't get why the UK formally has to go through with this.
And thus ends any hope of me staying in the UK after my university studies. I imagine this is going to cause so much brain drain.
Like, does the UK even have a leg to stand on in the international economic scheme of things? I'm sure mainland Europe would be relieved if we disappeared overnight and all their tourist places could take chips off their menus.
[QUOTE]The move comes nine months after people voted 51.9% to 48.1% in a referendum.[/QUOTE]
Fucking inbred retards.
Fuck anyone in the government who convinced everyone that this was a good idea.
[QUOTE=Loadingue;51986436]I still don't get why the UK formally has to go through with this.[/QUOTE]
Because there are people here who talk funny, or so I heard.
[QUOTE=Loadingue;51986436]I still don't get why the UK formally has to go through with this.[/QUOTE]
It's political suicide to U turn now. May knows it and she couldn't be happier that it plays right into her hands.
The people love her*, and the terrible twat party stays in power for another decade after lying and pandering to the most people possible, free to do it's bidding with what good is left of this soon to be more shit country.
[quote]Mrs May has said MPs and peers will have a vote on the deal she negotiates but she has insisted the UK will leave anyway even if Parliament rejects it. The government has said it expects to secure a positive outcome but made clear there is a chance of there being no formal agreement.[/quote]
Um, May this isn't how our government works, you can't just do something without an agreement.
[QUOTE=Crumpet;51986462]Really, we don't, this is exactly what May wants as it ultimately strengthens the Tory grip on the UK and she knows it's political suicide to U turn now.
[B]The people love her[/B], and the terrible twat party stays in power for another decade after lying and pandering to the most people possible, free to do it's bidding with what good is left of this soon to be shithole of a country.[/QUOTE]
Who are these "people" and why have they developed such terrible judgments of character?
:hammered: Thats...not how a government works May.
[QUOTE=Reagy;51986465]Um, May this isn't how our government works, you can't just do something without an agreement.[/QUOTE]
Who needs an agreement when you have 51% of [B]THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE![/B]?
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;51986471]Who are these "people" and why have they developed such terrible judgments of character?[/QUOTE]
I was a little vague, sorry. Not everyone obviously but the leave voters are getting everything they wanted and I'm sure those who voted pigfucker in the first place won't be changing their minds anytime soon with the Labour party in the state it is.
welp, there it is
if we survive, cool
[QUOTE=Loadingue;51986436]I still don't get why the UK formally has to go through with this.[/QUOTE]
Because a public vote happened, and even though many people did not like the outcome of that vote (including myself), it's being done out of respect for integrity, self-determination and the democratic process.
If instead the UK government went to the voters and said 'okay we're going to leave the EU, but just to be sure, we'll hold a referendum so that you can override us if the majority of you do not want us to leave', and if remain won 52% of the votes but the UK government decided to leave the EU anyway, everyone here would be screaming bloody murder.
[QUOTE=Crumpet;51986483]I was a little vague, sorry. Not everyone obviously but the leave voters are getting everything they wanted and I'm sure those who voted pigfucker in the first place won't be changing their minds anytime soon with the Labour party in the state it is.[/QUOTE]
But they're not getting everything they asked for, they're getting what they're told will bring everything they wanted but leaving the EU won't give us a boatloads of money in and boatloads of funny-talking people out. They're just going to realise that later rather than soon to the dretriment to all except those who are already in power. That, or they'll just conveniently not be able to see foreigners anymore like some magical thinking bollocks and think their corner shops are run by ghosts.
I wonder how much value GBP will lose that day.
[QUOTE=Xron;51986435]RIP us then.[/QUOTE]
no... RIP uk
:badzing:
[QUOTE=Yellowamoeba;51986497]I wonder how much value GBP will lose that day.[/QUOTE]
There'd probably be a bigger drop in the value of the Pound today than on the day the article is triggered. Investors don't like uncertainty, but publicly announcing which day something is going to happen when everyone knows what that something is (triggering article 50) is far from uncertainty. Hell the Pound will probably gain in value next Wednesday, because the UK gov is finally ending the uncertainty and getting on with it.
wouldn't it be hilarious if the conservatives lose 8 years from now and we end up just asking to join the EU again
[QUOTE=DiscoInferno;51986495]But they're not getting everything they asked for, they're getting what they're told will bring everything they wanted but leaving the EU won't give us a boatloads of money in and boatloads of funny-talking people out. They're just going to realise that later rather than soon to the dretriment to all except those who are already in power. That, or they'll just conveniently not be able to see foreigners anymore like some magical thinking bollocks and think their corner shops are run by ghosts.[/QUOTE]
You're preaching to the converted. They're getting what they think they want. Obviously in practice it won't turn out anything like they hoped.
[QUOTE=Yellowamoeba;51986497]I wonder how much value GBP will lose that day.[/QUOTE]
[img]http://horobox.co.uk/u/reag/2017-03-20_12-55-39.png[/img]
Gotta hit that all time low.
Can we get a new emote like the Russian one with the gay flag bouncing off but replace it with Big Ben and the EU flag bouncing off?
Now this a real trigger warning, good grief what a disaster this will be.
[QUOTE=Reagy;51986524][img]http://horobox.co.uk/u/reag/2017-03-20_12-55-39.png[/img]
Gotta hit that all time low.[/QUOTE]
Are the Tories hoping to ski off those slopes or...?
[QUOTE=Cructo;51986513]It's good that they're not going to stall it. The sooner the UK is free from the EU's leash the better[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the sooner the UK is free from it's legs the better.
Wait, no, that's stupid.
2 years to emigrate then
finland here I come
[editline]20th March 2017[/editline]
[QUOTE=Cructo;51986513]It's good that they're not going to stall it. The sooner the UK is free from the EU's leash the better[/QUOTE]
too bad about the severe brain drain
[QUOTE=Cone;51986516]wouldn't it be hilarious if the conservatives lose 8 years from now and we end up just asking to join the EU again[/QUOTE]
UK would be forced to take the Euro, and life would be shit for no reason. I'm glad the date is coming up, no need to stall it any longer. Long live the Empire.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;51986548]
too bad about the severe brain drain[/QUOTE]
Didn't you get the memo?
Britain doesn't need experts.
Europe can have all those well educated metropolitan elites. Checkmate beremoaners
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