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

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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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by hemocyanin on Thursday March 30 2017, @03:24PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday March 30 2017, @03:24PM (#486508) Journal

    The main problem with your thesis is that people in countries at similar levels of development expect living wages, decent benefits, rational hours, and a relatively non-abusive relationship with their employer. Desperate people from the 3rd World expect none of those things. Thus, mass immigration from destitute countries is NOT charity, it is how the 0.1% fuck you and enrich themselves by driving down the value of labor (increase competition for jobs).

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