Source: BREAKING: Britain must leave ‘as soon as possible’ – EU chiefs | The Herald June 24, 2016
Brussels – EU chiefs told Britain to start negotiations to quit the bloc “as soon as possible”, after outgoing Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday he would leave the negotiations to his successor, News24 reports.
“We now expect the United Kingdom government to give effect to this decision of the British people as soon as possible, however painful that process may be,” said a joint statement after Britons voted for a Brexit.
“Any delay would unnecessarily prolong uncertainty.”
The statement was issued by EU president Donald Tusk, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, EU Parliament leader Martin Schulz and Dutch premier Mark Rutte, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the bloc, after crisis talks in Brussels.
Earlier on BBC News reported that Cameron is to step down by October after the UK voted to leave the European Union.
The PM had urged the country to vote Remain but was defeated by 52% to 48% despite London, Scotland and Northern Ireland backing staying in.
UKIP leader Nigel Farage hailed it as the UK’s “independence day”, while Boris Johnson said the result would not mean “pulling up the drawbridge”.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said she was “absolutely determined” to keep Scotland in the EU so a second Scottish independence referendum was now “highly likely”.
European leaders made it clear they were keen to get the process over with as quickly as possible and wanted Britain to start talks immediately. – AFP
COMMENTS
The undemocratic behavior of both Tusk and Juncker, who incidently are both UNELECTED chefs, is the prime reason for the democratic UK wanting to leave the EU. The EU issues such stupid rules that piss everybody off. Neither does the UK want to be told that they must allow thousands of cultist Muslim migrants into their country. UK must be the only country in Europe that foresees the problem of accepting smelly migrants onto their soil. They have had enough of being told, undemocratically, what to do. It is sour grapes on both Tusk’s and Junkers’s part to demand that the UK start to immeadiatly unhinge itself from the EU. Spoilt little brats is what they are.
OUT – ASAP !!!