I'm actually not worried at all.
The UK should have taken this stance the day after Article 50 was triggered, instead of feebly trying to convince the EU that a deal is in all interests.
Had our government done this, then we would have had two years to prepare for normal trading terms, or strike an agreement.
It is only very recently that the EU has started to take it seriously as they genuinely thought that the UK would capitulate.
For the past 2 years and 2 months exactly, the EU has followed a strategic choice either to persuade the UK to reverse Brexit or to try to manoeuvre the UK into a Brexit which leaves it under the control of the EU. For the past months this has amounted to a choice of either indefinite EU customs union and single market membership (‘BRINO’) or placing part of the UK under EU control (Northern Ireland) in order dictate future EU-GB trading relations indefinitely.
There was never any serious EU attempts to consider ‘future relations’ as those being between two independent and sovereign parties, namely the EU and UK. Proof of such consideration would have been the outline of a possible UK-EU free trade agreement (using Canada or South Korea as a model).
For all these reasons there will not be a Brexit deal.
The reasons for this are entirely to do with the EU which for reasons of ideology and brinkmanship refused to understand that it was negotiating with an important country which was leaving the EU entirely, not trying to ‘cherry-pick’ EU membership.
Thus there are no serious or acceptable offers from the EU for a Brexit deal.
So,there will be no deal. It’s really that simple.
The scare mongering will no doubt reach fever pitch and continue right up until we leave.
Hammond saying that the UK economy 'could' shrink by X amount over X years is utter garbage.
They cannot correctly predict one quarter in advance.
To find an accurate financial forecast is as rare as hens teeth, be it the Tresuary, the IMF or the OECD.
By now, we are supposed to be in deep recession with a million more unemployed.
The Remoaniacs seem to overlook the fact that all past predictions have so far failed.
We'll leave, things will be different for a little while, then the world will just get on with it.
When the CEO of Danepak was asked for his 'no deal' comments, he said that they have been trading very successfully with the UK for 130 years.
They have survived two world wars and numerous recessions. He was sure that Brexit would not make that much of a difference.
...what about the 15,867,485 who haven't, or more likley can't be bothered to sign the petition?
