BREXIT - June 23rd 2016 vote - *ARTICLE 50 TRIGGERED!*
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they aren't jumping in front of europe and asia though and those still have to be navigated. i just posted a tweet with a newspaper snippet about these fools not even having enough trade negotiators. trade agreements aren't a snip, they take years. they won't get special treatment from america, but they won't be treated like some nobodies either because they are our 7th largest trading partner.
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Wouldn't be sure about that. It's a lot quicker to set up a deal with one country then like 15 with the TPP or the overly bureaucratic EU.
Especially if the UK's economy is squeezed, they may want to get something done quickly to save face, and would give the U.S. favorable terms.
Here we go 
Theresa May out in front in Tory leadership race as Liam Fox eliminated
Home secretary wins first round of election, with Leadsom second and Gove trailing in third.
By
PAUL DALLISON
7/5/16, 7:41 PM CET
Updated 7/5/16, 7:42 PM CET
Theresa May was the clear winner in a first round of voting on who should be the next leader of the Conservative Party and British prime minister, with Liam Fox finishing last and being eliminated.
May had the support of 165 MPs, way ahead of Andrea Leadsom on 66 votes, Michael Gove on 48 and Stephen Crabb on 34.
Fox, a former defense secretary and Brexiteer who finished third in a leadership contest 11 years ago, received just 16 votes. Under the election rules, the person finishing last drops out.
The race has not gone according to predictions made in the hours after the Brexit vote, when Boris Johnson was the overwhelming favorite to become prime minister.
The manner of Gove’s betrayal put off many MPs from backing him and Johnson gained a measure of revenge on Monday by backing Leadsom. Johnson said Leadsom “offers the zap, the drive, and the determination essential for the next leader of this country … she possesses the qualities needed to bring together Leavers and Remainers in the weeks and months ahead.”
The race is overseen by the party’s influential committee of backbench MPs, the 1922 Committee. Its executive has said it will use the process used in 2005 to elect David Cameron, which means Tory MPs choose two candidates and then party members vote. The 1922 Committee said it wants the process concluded by September 9.
Theresa May out in front in Tory leadership race as Liam Fox eliminated
Home secretary wins first round of election, with Leadsom second and Gove trailing in third.
By
PAUL DALLISON
7/5/16, 7:41 PM CET
Updated 7/5/16, 7:42 PM CET
Theresa May was the clear winner in a first round of voting on who should be the next leader of the Conservative Party and British prime minister, with Liam Fox finishing last and being eliminated.
May had the support of 165 MPs, way ahead of Andrea Leadsom on 66 votes, Michael Gove on 48 and Stephen Crabb on 34.
Fox, a former defense secretary and Brexiteer who finished third in a leadership contest 11 years ago, received just 16 votes. Under the election rules, the person finishing last drops out.
The race has not gone according to predictions made in the hours after the Brexit vote, when Boris Johnson was the overwhelming favorite to become prime minister.
The manner of Gove’s betrayal put off many MPs from backing him and Johnson gained a measure of revenge on Monday by backing Leadsom. Johnson said Leadsom “offers the zap, the drive, and the determination essential for the next leader of this country … she possesses the qualities needed to bring together Leavers and Remainers in the weeks and months ahead.”
The race is overseen by the party’s influential committee of backbench MPs, the 1922 Committee. Its executive has said it will use the process used in 2005 to elect David Cameron, which means Tory MPs choose two candidates and then party members vote. The 1922 Committee said it wants the process concluded by September 9.
Theresa May out in front in Tory leadership race as Liam Fox eliminated
superunknown23
Superstar
Looks like the Leave campaign got their act together and finally released an actual plan regarding Brexit:
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's Plan for UK Departure of the EU
88m3
Fast Money & Foreign Objects
Looks like the Leave campaign got their act together and finally released an actual plan regarding Brexit:
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's Plan for UK Departure of the EU
Between this and Putin bankrolling anything to undermine NATO/the EU
It's like melting ice.... a lot easier to melt a bunch of crushed pebbles than a glacier. Putin is playing chess
Looks like the Leave campaign got their act together and finally released an actual plan regarding Brexit:
Exclusive: Nigel Farage's Plan for UK Departure of the EU
#Fukknikkashyt 
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
they will get special treatment from america, everybody knows that, what obama said was 100 percent bluffing
Stock market back to normal. Media acting like it was about to be the end of the world.National security
Tokyo fears Brussels will lift China arms ban after Brexit
Abe adviser says balance of power in Indo-Pacific region could change
ROBIN HARDING — TOKYO
Japan fears Brexit will lead to an eventual lifting of the EU arms embargo on China, as the consequences of Britain’s divorce from Brussels ripple around the world.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Katsuyuki Kawai — a member of parliament and special adviser to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on foreign affairs — said Brexit “could even change the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region”.
Mr Kawai’s comments show how traditional British allies fear that the UK’s loss of influence in Europe could hurt their own national security.
“Among our friends in the EU, the United Kingdom was the strongest supporter of Japan’s view that the arms embargo on China should continue,” said Mr Kawai. “Taking the UK out, perhaps little by little the arms embargo on China could be lifted. That is something we must not see.”
The EU imposed a ban on weapons sales after China’s 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square. Beijing has pushed for the embargo to be lifted and the matter remains a sore point in China-EU relations.
Spain and France have in the past favoured lifting the embargo. The UK, whose arms companies make large sales to the US Department of Defence, has been a strong proponent of keeping it. China has made big strides in modernising its military but would still benefit from access to cutting-edge European technology.
Lifting the ban requires unanimity among the EU nations, so no change is likely until London formally leaves, and it is not a certainty even then. But post-Brexit, the balance on such foreign policy questions within the union is likely to shift.
So far Tokyo has mainly focused on the consequences of Brexit for the 1,000 or so Japanese companies with operations in the UK, which risk losing their access to the European market. But Mr Kawai said foreign policy needed attention as well.
“The national security implications may be as great, or even greater, than the economic impact so I’m paying close attention,” he said.
As well as specific issues such as the arms embargo, officials in Tokyo fear the UK and Europe will be too wrapped up in domestic problems to pay much attention to Asia, where China is challenging the territorial status quo in both the East and South China Seas.
“For the next two or three years, Europe will be extremely busy dealing with European issues,” said Yoshiji Nogami, president of the Japan Institute of International Affairs, and a former ambassador to the UK.
Japan is trying to marshal support for “universal values” and the use of international law to settle territorial claims in Asia. A UN tribunal is due to rule on July 12 in a case brought by the Philippines against Chinese claims in the South China Sea.
“I feel like not just politicians but the British people may turn inwards, towards domestic affairs or creating a new relationship with the EU, and lose interest in what happens beyond that, such as the defence co-operation with Japan or security in the Asia-Pacific region,” said Mr Kawai.
“That is why I am concerned about the possibility of a change in the power balance.”
