Theresa May to become the next British PM after another Brexit voice quits

[dunksby]

Britain's May wins PM race after pro-Brexit rival quits

Interior minister Theresa May will become Britain's prime minister on Wednesday, with the task of steering its withdrawal from the European Union, after rival Andrea Leadsom abruptly terminated her disastrous leadership campaign.

May, 59, will succeed David Cameron, who announced he was stepping down after Britons unexpectedly voted last month to quit the EU. Britain's planned withdrawal has weakened the 28-nation bloc, created huge uncertainty over trade and investment, and shaken financial markets.

May and Leadsom had been due to contest a ballot of grassroots Conservative party members, with the result to be declared by Sept. 9. But Leadsom unexpectedly quit on Monday after a campaign dogged by ill-judged comments about her rival's lack of children and questions about whether she had exaggerated her CV.

"I am honored and humbled to have been chosen by the Conservative Party to become its leader," said May, who favored remaining in the EU but has made clear there is no going back on the result of the June 23 referendum.

"Brexit means Brexit, and we're going to make a success of it."

Earlier, Cameron told reporters in front of his 10 Downing Street residence that he expected to chair his last cabinet meeting on Tuesday and take questions in parliament on Wednesday before tendering his resignation to Queen Elizabeth.

"So we will have a new prime minister in that building behind me by Wednesday evening," he said.

May will become Britain's second female prime minister, after Margaret Thatcher.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-wrapup-idUSKCN0ZR19P
Brexit campaigners quitting has become a trend :lol

[Nick Young]

O LES DO THIS :rockon: :rockon: :rockon:

Trigger Article 50, let's make this official!

[Dresta]

You're really showing yourself to be rather stupid lately. What this looks more and more like is a controlled passing of the premiership from one person to another. Do you know how party leadership even works in the UK? Do you not think it strange that Leadsom got to the membership vote and then stood down, clearing a path for May? Do you not think it weird that Gove stabbed Boris in the back, at the peak of his popularity, and at a time where he would've swept to the Conservative party leadership? Do you not think it strange that Gove was repeatedly meeting with George Osbourne during the Brexit campaign? Basically, do you know anything about the situation at all aside from the rubbish you copy and paste from poorly written articles on the internet?

But by all means, keep cheering political corruption, self-seeking and double-dealing like the utter moron you so clearly are. And that's exactly what you're doing by peddling exactly the narrative they want to be peddled. You even made a whole thread about a person's comment on having children, in what was a clear attempt by the media to smear Mrs. Leadsom ("omg she thinks being a mum is important: how dreadful").

But you're ideologically neutral here, amirite?

:roll:

[JtotheIzzo]

They left Brexit for their freedom only to have some Eton tw@t choose their next leader for them.

The UK fail knows no ends.

No wonder Iceland beat them, they cannot help themselves.

Next up, Scotland and their oil leaving and a reunification of Ireland.

Brexit = the best (unless you ae British, then it is just sad)

[Dresta]

Why are people who hate British patriotism because they think it is bigoted cheering Scottish and Irish nationalism with the same breath? You know many Sinn Fein leaders were involved in terrorism, right?

#ironic

#makesomesense

[JtotheIzzo]

Why are people who hate British patriotism because they think it is bigoted cheering Scottish and Irish nationalism with the same breath? You know many Sinn Fein leaders were involved in terrorism, right?

#ironic

#makesomesense

no one is hating British patriotism, simply shocked by the plebs awful decision making.

Soctland and NI leaving are in play now, nothing to do with Jerry Adams, but all to do with the brown hating Brexit vote and the repercussions of politics of hate.

[falc39]

no one is hating British patriotism, simply shocked by the plebs awful decision making.

Soctland and NI leaving are in play now, nothing to do with Jerry Adams, but all to do with the brown hating Brexit vote and the repercussions of politics of hate.

That's a ridiculous thing to say. The EU is inherently flawed and made its own grave. The fact that they are calling for deep reform now shows this. When you have non-elected politicians with no accountability, the only way they will change is to hold their feet to the fire, which the Brexit has clearly done.

[Akrazotile]

no one is hating British patriotism, simply shocked by the plebs awful decision making.

Soctland and NI leaving are in play now, nothing to do with Jerry Adams, but all to do with the brown hating Brexit vote and the repercussions of politics of hate.


Sorry brah but the days of thinking you can get your way politically simply through the smear tactic of white guilt are over.

That emotional BS may work on pansies like DeuceWallace still, but the rest of thr western world isnt having it. We doing what's logical, even if it means shutting the door on foreign "brown people."

Globalists who want a diversified and therefore CHEAP workforce can take a walk. If you wanna shill for them, you can follow suit.

[Dresta]

no one is hating British patriotism, simply shocked by the plebs awful decision making.

Soctland and NI leaving are in play now, nothing to do with Jerry Adams, but all to do with the brown hating Brexit vote and the repercussions of politics of hate.
Yep, you've perfectly just distilled the opinions of more than half the British population right there; no bias or prejudice in your interpretation whatsover. What you are doing is a well-known logical fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma

Learn it.


Oh, and Scotland and Northern Ireland leaving has always been in play: if you didn't notice, Scotland just had a referendum, and the Good Friday Agreement was never something the Unionists were going to stick to indefinitely. Not only this, but the existence of the EU has been a massive encouragement for local nationalism and secessionism--how can the UK justify keeping its own Union together when it is part of another? Things were trending in this direction already. From 2013:


Now that Scotland and Wales have their own Parliaments (and in my view are moving slowly but definitely towards becoming ‘independent’ states owing fealty directly to Brussels, rather than being linked to the EU only indirectly through London) , it would be logical to rename our dissolving nation ‘The United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland’, as all these countries, with the hilarious (but in my view fortunate) exception of England, now have their own law-making assemblies. It may not be long before we need to add London to this list, since the Livingstonian Presidential Republic of London is quite distinct from England, and is rapidly becoming more so.


Remind you of any recent voting patterns? Recent trends? Nahhhh--the politics of hate explains all!!! The British flag is not even allowed to be flown in Northern Ireland for something like 350 days out of the year--and you don't think they were already on the way to leaving? ha.


You are conflating the trigger with the cause: they are very different. Secessionism is growing all over Europe because of the EU Empire, and its directly undermining nation states. The Ukraine crisis is very much another example of the extreme political polarisation created by EU expansionism (and its tendency to split populations).

[Nick Young]

Why are people who hate British patriotism because they think it is bigoted cheering Scottish and Irish nationalism with the same breath? You know many Sinn Fein leaders were involved in terrorism, right?

#ironic

#makesomesense
Because JtotheIzzo and his crew read a few articles about the Brexit on Salon.com and decided they were experts on British politics:lol

[dunksby]

Despite pressure from other EU capitals to quickly start negotiating the terms of Britain's exit, May has said she would not be rushed into triggering article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, the formal step that will kickstart the process.

She is expected to promote women ministers to several senior roles, and Cameron's long-serving finance minister George Osborne could lose his job, according to media reports.

PMQs is usually a rowdy event, involving combative exchanges between Cameron and the leader of the main opposition Labour Party while lawmakers from both parties boo and cheer.

But with Cameron on his last day in the job and Labour mired in a profound crisis, the atmosphere at this PMQs is likely to be very unusual.

After months of simmering discontent among Labour lawmakers with party leader Jeremy Corbyn, the conflict exploded into the open after the referendum when the vast majority of the lawmakers rejected his leadership. He is being challenged for the job by lawmaker Angela Eagle.
Financial markets, which had been extremely volatile since the referendum, reacted positively to news on Monday that May would become prime minister earlier than expected, with sterling making strong gains against the dollar and the euro.
Let's see if she can pull this off and take the UK out of this limbo, both the EU and the Kingdom need it.

[dunksby]

You're really showing yourself to be rather stupid lately. What this looks more and more like is a controlled passing of the premiership from one person to another. Do you know how party leadership even works in the UK? Do you not think it strange that Leadsom got to the membership vote and then stood down, clearing a path for May? Do you not think it weird that Gove stabbed Boris in the back, at the peak of his popularity, and at a time where he would've swept to the Conservative party leadership? Do you not think it strange that Gove was repeatedly meeting with George Osbourne during the Brexit campaign? Basically, do you know anything about the situation at all aside from the rubbish you copy and paste from poorly written articles on the internet?

But by all means, keep cheering political corruption, self-seeking and double-dealing like the utter moron you so clearly are. And that's exactly what you're doing by peddling exactly the narrative they want to be peddled. You even made a whole thread about a person's comment on having children, in what was a clear attempt by the media to smear Mrs. Leadsom ("omg she thinks being a mum is important: how dreadful").

But you're ideologically neutral here, amirite?

:roll:
I already replied to your dumbass assumptions and horseshit in the other thread and you conveniently ignored it, but by all means, keep up your pretend keyboard scholar act on ISH, since nobody takes your tired ass vague and inarticulate shit throwing rhetoric seriously anywhere else.

[StephHamann]

So 3 of the 5 superpowers(China,Russia,Germany,USA,UK) are now ruled by women, feminists told us women are more peaceful and should be leaders.

The future will be interesting.

[poido123]

I already replied to your dumbass assumptions and horseshit in the other thread and you conveniently ignored it, but by all means, keep up your pretend keyboard scholar act on ISH, since nobody takes your tired ass vague and inarticulate shit throwing rhetoric seriously anywhere else.


Are you kidding?


You got your shit pushed in, but don't be alarmed you aren't the first and won't be the last. Dondadda thought he could post endless walls of pretty pictures and text, thinking everyone was going to fall for it, but then dresta comes in and destroys him :roll:


Most posters who talk to Dresta throw the same old lame shit at him, because they can't meet him at his intelligence level so they just give up and call him a keyboard scholar in defeat :oldlol:


Take a hike

[poido123]

So 3 of the 5 superpowers(China,Russia,Germany,USA,UK) are now ruled by women, feminists told us women are more peaceful and should be leaders.

The future will be interesting.


Well you can throw in Obama, Putin is about the only man there.

[IcanzIIravor]

Well you can throw in Obama, Putin is about the only man there.

He has taken over Crimea and dropped a few bombs in Syria. Slow down on the Putin love there.

[Dresta]

I already replied to your dumbass assumptions and horseshit in the other thread and you conveniently ignored it, but by all means, keep up your pretend keyboard scholar act on ISH, since nobody takes your tired ass vague and inarticulate shit throwing rhetoric seriously anywhere else.
I didn't respond to it because it was such a silly post that it didn't seem worth the effort it would take to reply to (you assumed my first post was aimed specifically at you, which it never was, and then got all sore and butthurt about it); you've proven your opinions are set-in-stone, and in no-way affected by evidence of any sort; you claim to be apolitical while peddling an unscientific worldview that is completely left-wing. You did all the things you accused me of doing, and more, and didn't even recognise your ridiculous hypocrisy. Anyway, I went back and replied, just for you:

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?p=12523246#post12523246

Safe to say your dumbass assumptions have been thoroughly debunked.

[DonDadda59]

Soooooo... When should I plan to throw my Article 50 being invoked party? :confusedshrug:

[Dresta]

Probably never considering the same people remain in power that the people just voted against. Indeed, the transfer was so smooth it was almost as if it were a planned contingency scenario.

This is funny:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/12/who-said-it-theresa-may-or-ed-miliband

I got 8/12.

There is laughably little difference between the guy who was called "Red Ed" and a woman who is hilariously called by some "the New Iron Lady"--talk about exposing media spin.

[DonDadda59]

Probably never

Oddsmakers are saying the same.

[INDENT][B]2018 or later or not at all