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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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by jmorris on Thursday March 30 2017, @04:32PM
I want my country back.
Not to put too fine a point on it, "your" country is still right there, in Berlin or Brussels. Perhaps you did not intend it, but it does sound like your loyalty has transferred to the EU so perhaps you should relocate to remain in it. Same process happened in the U.S. in the 19th Century, as primary loyalty slowly transferred from one's State to the USG, you seem to have already transferred your loyalty to the EU and now feel like a Virginian in 1861, in the days leading up to the formal secession. Most of the UK appear to have decided they would rather return to being Subjects of Her Majesty than remain "Citizens" in the EU's fake freedom of rule by unelected, unselected, government drones quietly directed from Berlin.
But the larger point is you lost the vote and can't deal with it. Democracy for a person like you only means the People are free to agree with you, should they ever disagree your actual devotion to popular rule is instantly revealed as a sham. We are watching the exact same process play out on my side of the pond with the 'Democratic' Party revealing their actual beliefs about Democracy. And should LePen pull of an upset win, does anyone doubt we would be treated to the exact same 'big reveal' about the French establishment's actual views of "The People?"