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Helen Carter

The funniest #brexitday tweets after UK fails to leave EU on October 31

If you feel as if Brexit has been going on for ever, you may want some light relief from the seemingly never-ending extensions with a few Twitter jokes.

Since the UK voted to leave the European Union in June 2016, Brexit has now been delayed three times.

We were supposed to leave the EU in March 2019 but, when former Prime Minister Theresa May failed to get her Brexit deal through Parliament, the date was extended to May 2019.

Then it was extended further to October 31. Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeatedly insisted that the UK will leave the bloc today in "do or die" and deal or no-deal.

He said he would rather "die in a ditch" than not do Brexit today, on Halloween.

However, things didn't quite turn out that way.

Here are some of the funniest tweets on #BrexitDay.

The former Lord Mayor of Sheffield, and Green Party MEP for Yorkshire and the Humber, MagicMagid said: "Can someone please tell me what time Mark Francois is going to explode today, I'd hate to miss it.

#BrexitDay

#DieInADitchDay

Jo W tweeted:  "I'm in London today but worried about going out... Does anyone know where the millions who must be protesting to leave the EU today will be starting from? And what time? They must be really angry that they haven't got their #BrexitDay afterall...

Paul Carnahan tweeted: "Amazing incident outside Lidl. Toddler rose from his pushchair and said: 'But, mother, surely today, October 31, is the day we were to be free of tyrannical EU rule?#

"Everyone cheered and large-scale civic unrest ensued country-wide. True story. #BrexitDay"

And Caitlin Moran tweeted: "Gonna be kind of amazing when, by the end of the day, Boris Johnson can add "failing to die in a ditch" to his already gigantic list of things he couldn't achieve.

"HE CAN'T EVEN DIE IN A DITCH. Badgers manage it."

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