Following the historic decision by the British people to part ways with the EU on Thursday’s referendum, many hoped the ‘divorce’ between the EU and the UK would be velvet. It seems the Europeans are not so happy to take the decision so lightly.

The European Parliament President Martin Schulz dubbed the decision by UK PM David Cameron to stay on as Britain’s leader until October as ‘scandalous’. Schulz accused Cameron of taking the whole of the European continent ‘hostage’ due to his decision to stay at the helm of the UK for the next 4 months. Immediately after the referendum results David Cameron announced he would resign as PM but would leave office in October. ‘The whole continent is once more held hostage due to domestic deliberations in the British conservative party’, said Schulz.

Meanwhile. European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said it was meaningless to wait until October for the British to leave the EU. Speaking to German TV station ARD, Juncker said that the rest of Europe should not have to wait until October when the new leader of the country is in office to start the negotiations for the UK to leave the EU. ‘It is not an amicable divorce, but then again it never was exactly a close love affair’, Juncker underlined, revealing the negative sentiment towards Britain. He went on to say that the British people’s decision saddened him. ‘There is no alternative to Europe’, he stressed. The process of the UK leaving the EU will commence when the British government activates article 50 of the European Union.