Brexit: Theresa May signs formal European Union divorce papers pitching UK into unknown territory

[Little Tich]

Source: ABC Australia

British Prime Minister Theresa May has officially triggered the Brexit process by signing Article 50, pitching the United Kingdom into unknown territory following a June 2016 referendum that voted to leave the European Union.

Ms May is expected to file the formal divorce papers to EU Council President Donald Tusk on Wednesday evening (Australian time).

After filing the papers, Ms May — an initial opponent of Brexit who won the top job in the political turmoil that followed the referendum vote — will have two years to settle the terms of the divorce before it comes into effect in late March 2019.

"Now that the decision has been made to leave the EU, it is time to come together," Ms May said, according to comments supplied by her office.

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-29/theresa-may-signs-article-50-triggering-brexit/8395944

[Jonny Appleseed]

1. I expect the "terms of divorce" to keep everything the same but just remove their name from

The roster.

[Initech]

2. I swear Russia is behind Brexit.

Their goal - dismantle the EU, dismantle NATO, dismantle the US Army. It's all becoming clear now.

[roamer65]

3. She just signed the death warrant for the U.K.

Scotland will go first, then Northern Ireland. England and Wales may stay together...may...

[Aristus]

4. The independence vote for Scotland was close last time.

If they try again, it may be close again, but this time, going the other way...

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

6. I think the EU would be very reluctant to embrace Scotland

The UK (all of it) is going to need a good decade to figure out how this goes forward. Bermuda left to it's own devices would have been the 14th Colony, it just wasn't practical.

[Jake Stern]

7. And they will face an uphill battle to join the EU as countries with active separatist movements

such as Spain will be very reluctant to support their membership.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

5. Russian Roulette with a semi-automatic pistol

The greatest irony of-course is that May herself, the dutiful if reluctant hangman doesn't herself believe in this.

The EU saved a declining Britain from international irrelevance.