Brexit Trigger pulled

[ordnance11]

Formal notice to leave
So what happens now?
And will there be a UK left when it is said and done?
I can see Northern Ireland and Scotland deciding to secede from Britain. What happens next to Northern Ireland would be interesting next. Would it be union with Ireland afterwards?
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

[Dartz]

Great Britain's national brains spatter all over the wall of history. Don't think we've ever seen a world power commit suicide like that before.

Meanwhile, President Tusk and the European council have issued the following statement:

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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?

[Bob Schroeck]

I can see Northern Ireland and Scotland deciding to secede from Britain.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/28/europe/sc ... indy-vote/]The Scottish Parliament has already started the process as of yesterday, with a vote 69-59 in favor of an independence referendum.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Black Aeronaut]

Well, that didn't take long.

[Skyfire2020]

If Scotland and Northern Ireland want to become independent then good luck to them.. Unlike the E.U. we will not only give them the chance to vote, but we will also accept the result and not resort to legal challenges or demands for the vote to be rerun.
The E.U. on the other hand has never once accepted a critical vote.  It has made countries vote again and again and again until it get the "right" answer and I don't believe they will ever sign a deal on Brexit.  It will be an endless game of soldier soldier (http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/english/osoldier.htm) and they think we aren't willing to walk away when the talks get nowhere.  How else do you explain the attempt to grab Gibraltar (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39475127) or the idea that we owe the E.U. a penny (http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/786984 ... e-minister).    When you move out of a flat share you give any required notice and you take with you all your belongings (or agree a cash alternative).  You don't pay your former housemates for the goods they plan to buy after you leave.
Finally I had several choices of the British video response to the E.U. ranging from "Rule Britannia" to "Do you here the people sing" but I settled on this:

(and of course now I posted about the videos not working, it works fine)

Mark

[nemonowan]

I doubt very much that "the E.U." cares at all about Gibraltar. That is all Spain, who has wanted to recover that enclave for more than a century and sees Brexit as a chance to impose an economic blockade on it, to put pressure on gibraltans so they will accept some kind of shared sovereignty.Whether the E.U. as a whole will throw a bone to Spain and include those conditions in the Brexit negotiations... well, I think it seems unlikely.