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Brexit Officially Begun, Article 50 Just Invoked

posted by on Thursday March 30 2017, @07:14AM   
from the Brexit-Means-Brexit dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-39431428

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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• Re:This is how it ends (Score: 4, Insightful) by c0lo on Thursday March 30 2017, @11:07AM

  by c0lo (156) on Thursday March 30 2017, @11:07AM (#486426) Journal

  Ireland doesn't need to to increase its boarders. They definitely do not need to add the economic bottomless pit that is the 6 counties of the North.

  Neither the former Western Germany needed the "bottomless pit" that was the Eastern one back in 1990.
  And yet today, an East german person is prime minister; believe it or not, it wasn't propped by Russians.

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

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