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If you don't laugh you'll cry.
One Wednesday, the President of the European Council Donald Tusk received a letter from British Prime Minister Theresa May formerly triggering Article 50 and starting our country's exit from the European Union.
Naturally people were pretty upset - but from every dark day the Great British sense of humour emerges, to embrace everyone like a comfortable and cynical blanket.
Here are just a few of the best jokes about Brexit.
Article 50 letter about to arrive https://t.co/LRlVVDCwhj— Sam Coates Sky (@Sam Coates Sky) 1490786576
"And that is why I have decided to accept an invitation to become Angela Merkel's cat" #Article50 https://t.co/uYIQQm43Qt— Unnamed Insider (@Unnamed Insider) 1490778941
How are you going to celebrate Article 50 Day? I'm going to pour some raw sewage on a beach and buy a very high wattage lightbulb.— David Whitley (@David Whitley) 1490770784
Mrs. May, instead of writing an Article 50 letter which could go missing in transit, why not try a secure encrypted messaging service?— Ian Watt (@Ian Watt) 1490768656
Article 50 day is finally here. Shoutout to all the leave voters who have died of old age since June— Fred Delicious (@Fred Delicious) 1490768072
Welcome to the future. https://t.co/8U3DgI4kgF— David Baddiel (@David Baddiel) 1490777990
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