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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by pjc50 on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:22PM (#21400152)
Article 50 was retrofitted: at the time of joining the EC (as it was then) in 1973, there was no defined mechanism for leaving.
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Re:Spanish government orders GitHub to take down Tsunami Dem... by rndgermandude on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @01:59PM (#21400575)
The EC was hardly the same as the EU.

But sure, the EC not having had a defined process there was an oversight. But it was clear that the EC would not prevent the UK or any other member from leaving should they have chosen to do so. They wouldn't have arrested the Queen and replaced the UK members of parliament with EC people.

Article 50 really is just about establishing a procedure for an orderly withdrawal from the union (well, not that orderly in practice it would seem).

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