User blog comment:ShyGuyMapping/ShyGuy's Test of Bants/@comment-28393630-20170414170937/@comment-26865094-20170414174840

I'm sorry but you're being incredible ignorant about all this

What the UK signed a few weeks back was "Article 50", which is basically just an article which initiates a procedure to start signing trade deals to eventually leave the EU. After signing this, the UK has 2 years maximum to make new trade deals with the EU. During this 2 year period, the UK is still in the EU, still has to obey their rules and functions the same way it did before triggering Article 50. Around late March 2019, then and only then, can the UK be out of the Union. And if they fail to meet the deadline, they won't be able to leave and will still be in the EU after that.

Anybody who thinks it has left is mislead, it has not left, nor seperated