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It's that he has decided we are leaving with no deal from the start but we won't leave until 31 October.
If he won't negotiate, then just go to the EU say "We're leaving now with no deal and as of tomorrow the UK won't be a member of the EU" then we can start sorting out what happens.
Instead we are left with 3 months of uncertainty, but never mind, good old Boris will muddle us through this with an inane publicity stunt to make us all feel good...
This morning it would appear the 'Boris bounce' in polls was merely disturbance in the ether.
Like his two predecessors all too soon he will have to eat his lugubrious and fanciful rants and accept the reality about which the business and finance community has been warning for some four years.
The trouble with economists is that they extrapolate from data and can only do that based on historical experience. This means that they cannot account for the constant incremental adaptions that business makes to cope with real or percieved threats.
My maxim has always been "follow the money".
In the end, regardless of Brexit, the EU, US-China Trade threat, IF out politicians don't lead us into war in its several forms then businesses will pretty much usurp the conditions and, one way or another, do what it takes to make a profit.
Of course there will be winners and loosers - that is Darwinian evolution ... frankly I'm indifferent to the antics of our elected donkeys [and BoE economic forecasts!] - on balance, in the medium term, business will adjust.
I’d stick to the accounting! And for the record the Johnson rant in your headline was addressed at the CBI and related to their remain politicking! And also for the record, most real economists reflect that whilst Brexit will be disruptive appropriate policy responses will take us through it without causing economic Armageddon!
He has promised funding for everything under the sun, but still surrounds himself with advisers who have been clamouring to scrap HS2, anti climate lobbyists and most things that Trump believes in. Unbelievable