It is up to the Government of the day to decide when to invoke Article 50, and clearly it is in the UK's interests to do so when it suits us and not the rest of the EU. We now call the shots on the timing, which will no doubt irritate many such as Juncker, but since the rest of the EU has, in terms of trade, everything to gain by ensuring a smooth Brexit, protecting, for example, Germany's exports of luxury cars to the UK, I expect the majority European politicians will act in a grown up manner, if only to protect their own interests. 
European politicians have to answer to their
own electorates. Those are all complaining about immigration, taxes, job losses, declining health care, terrorism, crime, globalisation, EU bureaucracy, fat cat industrialists, the reduction of social programs, etc etc. Does any of that sound remotely familiar? Both France and Germany(the powers in the EU now that we've resigned the third position) are far more overtly patriotic than we are which affects their politics. By voting to leave,
we have deliberately removed the barrier to nationalist European politics that is at the heart of the EU.
This is a brave thing to do. I hope it works.
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