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Theresa May signing Brexit letter is the meme you've been waiting for

Brexit means meme.

Gianluca Mezzofiore

on March 29, 2017

There's something about photo ops of politicians signing papers that triggers the people's imagination, not to mention an avalanche of memes.

First it was the turn of Donald Trump, who made quite the scene signing troves of controversial executive orders and holding the paper up to the camera. A lot of memes followed, which you can find gathered in the Twitter account @TrumpDraws.

Now the memes-mania has crossed the pond and, faithful to the special relationship, targeted Theresa May.

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The UK prime minister was pictured while signing the letter that formally triggers the UK's exit process from the European Union.

The document was hand delivered in Brussels to EU chiefs and...Well, this is not politics but memes, so let's just say that people on Twitter found the opportunity to speculate on the content of the letter:

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May will not be happy. Or maybe she'll just laugh about it:

Via Giphy

Topics Memes