“No need to write, David”, impatient EU tells Cameron

Foreign ministers of Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg met in Berlin and said they want negotiations to start quickly.

After the shock result German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande led calls for the European Union to reform in order to survive a traumatic divorce with Britain.

Britain’s decision to quit the European Union could send damaging shockwaves through the bedrock Anglo-American “special relationship”, raising questions about London’s willingness and ability to back US-led efforts in global crises ranging from the Middle East to Ukraine.

The Foreign Ministers from EU’s founding six Jean Asselborn from Luxemburg, Paolo Gentiloni from Italy, Frank-Walter Steinmeier from Germany, Didier Reynders from Belgium, Jean-Marc Ayrault from France and Bert Koenders from the Netherlands, brief the media after a meeting on the so-called Brexit in Berlin, Germany, Saturday, June 25, 2016. “The people have spoken and we need to implement this decision”.

The British vote has stoked fears of a domino-effect of exit votes in eurosceptic member states that could imperil the integrity of the bloc.

In an early sign of the Brexit fallout in Brussels, Britain’s European commissioner for financial services, Jonathan Hill, said he would stand down. The leaders of the campaign to exit the bloc, or “Brexit”, continued to disagree over what kind of relationship they wanted with Europe, and thousands of Britons started signing a petition asking for a second referendum.

“I am anxious, really sick for my children’s prospects”, said Lindsey Brett, a 57-year-old secretarial worker. In Northern Ireland’s six counties, 56 percent voted to remain.

The number of signatories far surpassed the 100,000 required for a proposal to be discussed in the House of Commons.

In a press release issued Friday, Cerar said he thinks that after a “brief period of relative uncertainty on the worldwide markets”, the development will “result in additional strengthening of the Union and incentives to carry out its reform that will allow us to face similar challenges more effectively, with a greater measure of solidarity and determination, and in a closer partnership”. Many observers doubt it can be done in the two-year timeframe.

First Minister and Scottish National Party leader Nicola Sturgeon said the country was seeking “immediate discussions” with its European Union partners to try to protect its position in the bloc.

Scots backed staying in Britain in their last referendum in 2014.

A May report from the United Kingdom data group, Digital Science, stressed that scientific research in Britain was propped up by European Union funding to a “concerning level”, and in evidence to a Lords committee, the pro-European science minister, Jo Johnson, made clear there was no guarantee that a post-Brexit government would be willing or able to make up any shortfall if the European Union funds collapsed.

The vote, the culmination of an often poisonous campaign, exposed deep divides across British society, including between what The Independent newspaper called “those doing well from globalisation and those “left behind” and not seeing the benefits in jobs or wages”.

Jeremy Corbyn, head of the opposition Labor Party, came under fire, as at least a third of his top team threatened to resign unless he goes, the Sunday Times of London reported.

Young people, graduates, and big cities tended to favour “Remain”.

“I feel angry. Those who voted leave, they’re not going to fight the future”, said Mary Treinen, 23, a technological consultant from London’s trendy Shoreditch district.

Britain’s “leave” campaigners have been accused of lacking a plan for the aftermath of a victory.

“It was the day the quiet people of Britain rose up against an arrogant, out-of-touch political class and a contemptuous Brussels elite”, it said.