Chequers Mate ?!
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Quite agree, the relentless pessimism of those that cannot accept the referendum result is wearying at best.
Unfortunately we are dealing with not only EU bullies but fanatics who will put the future of the EU project ahead of economic considerations.
Expect some sort of 'breakthrough' on March 28 and plenty of hysteria about dog passports, pills stuck at Calais, toilets on the M20 and avocado price rises before then.
Most negotiations of such a nature go to the wire. The uninitiated wet themselves over deadlock but to experienced teams it's simply grist to the mill
"Fanatics who will put the future of the EU project ahead of economic considerations."
Really, have yet to see an economic argument for crashing out with no deal that holds water , is there one that does not do damage to the UK economy? Who do you want to quote, Patrick (sorry UK manufacturing) Minford?
Have some honesty, you want to leave, fine, just be honest, you want it but to hell with the cost,but do not dress it up that leaving the largest trading block by GDP in the world , to open up other markets (whose GDP we already in the main access via trade deals between the EU and these other countries) is somehow an economic improvement?
However the proof is now a little bit nearer ,I put on this site my projections re a No Deal Brexit some time back, want to put yours, mine were fairly specific and measurable.
On 29th August I posted This
"1. In the event of WTO Brexit in March 2019 ,with no WA extension or NI/Ireland deal I predict the following:
a. At minimum 500,000 UK job losses re closures/ lay offs/relocations etc by March 2021
b. Sterling drops minimum 5% re dollar, more likely nearer 10% but trickier one as ROW economics can impact and I cannot yet read what is going to happen to US economy once Trump tax break works its way out.
c. Eu economies also hit but impact spread across more countries so down turns not that bad.
d. At least one UK mainland region (North east is my favourite) takes a 10% drop in GDP or more.
e. Northern Ireland economy worst hit Uk region."
These sound like the same recycled doom laden predictions that preceeded the referendum. No one wants to see trade with the EU interrupted but if the un-elected unaccountable fanatics running the EU project wish to do this it will impact on the EU too. I wonder if anyone has worked out the economic impact on the EU of 'no deal'. Can political considerations really be allowed to override economic considerations in this way?If so the fanatics in charge are probably more interested in preparing a railway carriage in a forest just outside Paris than the economic interests of their own citizens.
I think it is just a bother that you get politicians like Boris Johnson who use their once powerful position to bleat on and give the unaware members of the public the noise that they want to hear, and disrupt the very difficult job of negotiating a deal.
This is what bothers me more than anything else.
Well did you notice tonight's comment by M.Barnier ( the egocentric lead negotiator who seems to put himself first ) that he thinks technology could assist in NI / Eire border.
If they can get men to the moon they can work it out at the border - it is surely not rocket science ( no pun intended ) .
I suspect the EU is trying to break NI from UK as a sop to Eire and are waking up to the fact the UK government will not let it happen. Just becuase it is across a stretch of water does not make it any less British.
Perhaps the EU should also mandate the return of the West Bank of The Rhine !