What a 'No-Deal' Brexit could look like

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47470864

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MartinII · 70-79, M

I can't access your link, but there's a piece currently on the BBC website headed "What is no-deal Brexit". It makes a fundamental error by implying that the position immediately after a no-deal exit would be permanent. In fact a no-deal exit would almost immediately trigger urgent negotiations between the UK and the EU on trade and other matters, because deals of some kind on these matters would be in the EU's interests. Of course it's impossible to predict how such negotiations would turn out; but the UK would be in a much stronger negotiating position than it is now, when the EU doesn't believe a no deal exit will happen.

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@MartinII Yet if you believe what the E:U are saying there is no more room for negotiation. Time's up !

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@MartinII I am quite certain that at a corporate to corporate level at least a lot of those deals have all been worked out and put in the safe, pending the date arriving. Profits will continue to flow..

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@whowasthatmaskedman In terms of trade we are 'big spenders' within the EU so it makes sense that beyond all the political chicanery that they work something out.

MartinII · 70-79, M

@Picklebobble2 At the moment the EU are refusing to negotiate because they don’t believe a no-deal exit will happen. If they become convinced that it might, they will immediately start renegotiating. And if, contrary to their expectation, a no-deal exit really does happen, they will immediately try to do deals to protect their and their member states’ interests.

Nyloncapes · 61-69, M

@MartinII you are right in what you say , can you imagine Germany and France letting this happen because EU think it won't happen , and the other countries, that is why we make it permanently clear no deal will happen the EU can not let the other countries down just to teach us a lesson ,

Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M

@Nyloncapes Dodgy kind of brinkmanship though.

Everybody's watching to see who blinks first.