UK to leave EU

[SofaKingHigh]

There will almost certainly be some kind of interim deal, if there isn't, we're all fucked.

Why do you expect that? The exisitng deals will continue until article 50 is invoked, thus starting the seperation process. The longer this takes, the longer the markets will react unpredictable. Once article 50 is invoked, negotiations may start. What they said today is, that there's no room for sweet deals anymore. For now, until article 50 is invoked, the UK is still a member and there's nothing to renegotiate. But they also made clear that the UK and whoever may be at the helm, won't take the flight home with another cherry in their pockets and that they won't have any kind of influence on EU decisions.

Well, I wouldn't expect us to, considering we've voted to leave.

Also, you're wrong about article 50, we're still a member of the EU until those negotiations have completed.  Not once we've triggered article 50.

What she said, if I am reading it correctly, is that there will be no discussions around trade until we have left.....that isn't when we've triggered article 50 by the way, we'll still be trading with, and be a part of, the EU until those negotiations have finished.

We will then no longer be a part of the EU.

If she is to be believed, once we have left, we will have no trade deal at all with the EU.  If you read that article in full, you will read that many other EU commissioners disagree....it just won't be allowed to happen.

It's a funny situation at the minute, so it's difficult to predict, but I can't see the EU allowing their biggest customer to effectively cease trading once we've left.