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The UK Government has officially notified the EU that they are invoking Article 50. This begins the 2-year timer for the UK to leave the EU.
In a statement in the Commons, [Prime Minister Teresa] May said: "Today the government acts on the democratic will of the British people and it acts too on the clear and convincing position of this House."
She added: "The Article 50 process is now under way and in accordance with the wishes of the British people the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union.
"This is an historic moment from which there can be no turning back."
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Brexit Officially Begun, Article 50 Just Invoked
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:05AM (5 children)
there's nothing wrong with being xenophobic or bigoted anymore since it applies to huge swathes of the population.
Yes, there still is, you bloody Pom! You are the result of too many Picts and Britons have too many carnal relations with sheep, you idiot fucking racist! As I have said before, this is why we cannot have white supremecy! These bloody Brits are too fucking stoopid! I hate them all. Do you know that when Nietzsche advocated genocide, it was not the jews he had in mind, it was the UK! As Marx said, a nation of shopkeepers! So fucking lowly and stupid that they cannot even manage a national cuisine! Fucking kidney pie? At least the Scots have Haggis! And what is it with the warm beer? No one really wanted the UK to be part of the EU, but they thought they had to let them in, if they were going to let in Turkey. But, seriously, there is nothing more pathetic than British xenophobia and bigotry. After all, Angles and Saxons are actually Germans, right? And half of the great-great-grandfather of the UK are Danes! Am I right? And William? The Conqueror? French, you know. Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second tyme!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:14AM (1 child)
#triggered
Alright, let's see your taunts then.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @08:17AM
This is what happens with Paki bashing, when it is the Paki doing the bashing. Pathetic remains of a nation of thieves. Return the Elgin Marbles, you fucks!!!
(Score: 1) by ewk on Thursday March 30 2017, @09:08AM (1 child)
When doing it with sheep, it seems to me, you're exactly the opposite of an racist... :-D
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @02:31PM
That depends on whether you are also doing it with black sheep. ;-)
(Score: 4, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday March 30 2017, @03:14PM
I think you missed the point of the GP's post. When you call anyone and everyone who disagrees with you, a racist nazi, including those people who actually are not racist nazis, your argument loses currency.
I don't live in Britain so I can't speak from personal experience about Brexit, but I would bet money that many of those who voted for Brexit did so as a backlash, much like how Trump won here in the US because the status quo is failing so many people. It may be an ineffective backlash, one with multiple unintended consequences, even a backlash made out of pure spite without the expectation that things will get better, but for many people the backlash is rooted in the economic unfairness of past 40 years or so. That isn't racism - that's being pissed off and exercising the only type of vengeance possible short of building guillotines.