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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: 4, Insightful) by bradley13 on Thursday March 30 2017, @06:54PM (1 child)
"Once you have a bunch of foreigners coming in droves, forming neighborhoods and rapidly changing the cultural environment, it can seem like an invasion."
You have large numbers of uneducated and generally unemployable people arriving, who do not speak your language or share your cultural values. That *is* an invasion.
"The vast majority mean no harm and just want to work and have a better life."
Yes. There's a refugee here who just arrive from Afghanistan. Seems like a nice enough guy, although he doesn't yet speak a word of any local language. But here's the thing:
- Every individual is a fine person.
- Entire migrations are not fine.
I have total sympathy for an individual person who was in a shitty situation. I understand that they just want a better life. But there are are literally hundreds of millions of people in Africa and the Middle East who desperately want to go to Europe. We cannot take them all - not "don't want to" but cannot.
If Europe wants to accept some number of immigrants, this is something we can disucss. But the process must be under control. You cannot let people just randomly wander in. Put a process in place for immigrations, and enforce it. Anyone arriving outside of this process must be turned away, with no exceptions whatsoever.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 30 2017, @07:59PM
A lot of those cultural values also has to do with viewing women as prey. In general every person that is physically weaker at any time as free to prey on. Add to that the drive for theocratic ruling of the society. The key is however that they can't and won't be employed in any meaningful way at large in industrialized nations, which puts them on welfare that impacts the economy. And the loyalty to existing citizens are way too low to make it work as a integrated society which impacts security.