A no-deal Brexit remains highly likely

financial times (UK) ^ | 3/24/2019 | wolfgang munchau

[dp0622]

EU leaders agreed a very good compromise last week...

The rest of the article is just as slanted.

[Mount Athos]

What do you mean?

The EU leaders did not compromise at all in the substance of the deal, the one that the UK parliament rejected twice.
Only the deadline date. Or am I wrong?

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Brits should get out with no deal at the end of March...get with POTUS, Trump, negotiate their own trade deal and let the EU come apart as the other EU members leave the EU and join with Great Britain and the USA, Canada & Mexico!!!

[FLT-bird]

I think most in the UK (or nearly most and likely soon to be most) are ready to just end the agony. Just leave and be done with it.

Once they are out, the UK will be free to make trade deals with everybody and that includes the EU. There will certainly be some butt-hurt from Yurps for a while and they desperately do not want the UK to immediately flourish lest other captive nations inside the EU storm the exits, but ultimately the UK is a valuable market and they will want to do business. That will be especially so once the layoffs at German auto manufacturers start after their UK sales take a big hit.

[nickedknack]

Hard Brexit crash out with no deal is the UK’s best option — leave all EU baggage behind.

[MrEdd]

Well reading that pathetic drivel was a waste of time.

[Mount Athos]

OK, what do you think then? Where is it wrong

[dp0622]

This article said the EU did compromise. Quite a bit.

That’s a lie.

But you just stated that so a mix up in communications is all :)

[Mount Athos]

“This article said the EU did compromise. Quite a bit.

That’s a lie.”

Wait what? Where does it say that I seriously don’t see it. I am pretty tired though

[dp0622]

We can say for sure that the EU does not want a hard Brexit. But perhaps the more important insight is that EU leaders do not wish to be held responsible. In offering a short delay, they have accomplished this task. No one — not even I — would blame them for a messy Brexit.

But do not misjudge their patience...

Maybe I read into that too harshly.

But the write seems a little too thankful for no reason towards the EU.

[BenLurkin]

The UK remains something of an economic leader. Let’s see what happens which the UK starts negotiating unilateral trade arrangements with nations on the continent.

Perhaps they will start competing with each other to get good deals.

[poinq]

A no-deal Brexit is the best deal. England will have a better deal if they negotiate as a separate country. They can first negotiate with other countries like the US. Right now they can only negotiate with The EU. And the EU will need England more than the other way around. The markets have already priced in a no deal Brexit. So go with it. There is very little down side.

[MrEdd]

What about the argument that a no-deal is unlikely because nobody wants it? For starters, we do not really know what Mrs May wants.

If nobody wanted it, it would never have been enacted, yet this tripe repeatedly holds that up as an underlying assumption.

But here is the biggest one:
the UK cannot be allowed to undermine the legitimacy of the European Parliament while it is negotiating its way out.the UK cannot be allowed to undermine the legitimacy of the European Parliament while it is negotiating its way out.

This same voluntary trade organization that now wants to form an army, and mentioned one of the purposes would be to hold member nations in the fold? The parliament of that organization?

The European Union wasn't sold to its member nations as a superstate with authority superseding its members in all matters including immigration from the Islamic world.

No, it is utterly impossible for the United Kingdom to "undermine the legitimacy" of the European Union. None remains to be undermined.

As I said, this is drivel.

[central_va]

All Brexit means is the UK gets to set its own tariff schedules and control immigration WIN - WIN for them. People act like tariffs are a bad thing. Trade between the UK and the EU will go on post Brexit. There will be no embargos. LOL! Just a change in duty rates and you need a visa to stay in the UK past 90 days( I think that is the time allowed). This is normal and not bad at all. This is just normalizing relations between countries in my opinion.

Only the USA is stupid enough to be on the losing side of world wild mercantilism. Thanks Free Traitors™.

[Mount Athos]

Oh now I see what you mean.

Yeah, I think the opposite of that paragraph also.
The EU’s initial (and current) negotiating position was absurdly tough, that surely make hard brexit more likely to my mind. It seems like they said “we give you nothing and you have no choice”.

I don’t really have a good grasp on the subject overall though, but I’m interested to learn and hear what others think

[tennmountainman]

The fact that May had to go beg the corrupt EU for an extension
should tell us who pulls the strings in the U.K.

It is sad to see the PM of the U.K. have to beg the EU for anything.

Get out now.

[nathanbedford]

She agrees to drop one of her red lines — her opposition to a customs union. But she maintains her opposition to freedom of movement, a second referendum and participation in EU parliament elections.

If Great Britain or Teresa May have any respect for the voice of the people they can accede to neither one of the red lines. To submit to the customs union is to deny national sovereignty the right to negotiate trade, a fundamental indicia of sovereignty. The fact that Teresa May attempted to deal the way this sovereign right in disguise was exposed and rejected by Parliament and therefore has contributed much to putting her, her party and her nation in this dilemma.

To accede to freedom of movement is to deny the most fundamental component of sovereignty, the ability to control borders and to determine who shall occupy the land. Moreover, the original referendum was won, most observers agree, because Chancellor Merkel opened the floodgates to Muslim economic refugees who, under the terms of freedom of movement, could ultimately be inflicted on Britain.

To renege on either of these "red lines" would be a betrayal of centuries of British history. There was just enough of England left to know it.

[rx]

I consider it poetic that those who conspired and plotted with other 5Eyes regarding Trump’s demise over the past three years will likely take it in the teeth shortly, in Trump’s figurative place.

As representative for that group, May gets to flee under a similar hounding regarding her competency for her flawed and and evil-intentioned, anti-Brexit-constituent deal proposals.

With Purim as the analog, Trump gets to see victory over enemies that plotted his demise.

Adm. Rogers, playing Mordecai, overhears the plot against the king, Ahasuerus and discloses it, gaining both favor (from the White House) and disdain (from the Deep State).

Haman (Mueller) is appointed and has tremendous power. Trump learns of Mueller’s evil dealings and wants an end to his treachery. But Mueller’s SC-ness cannot be undone (lest the king Obstruct Justice—laws are like that).

Huber and the DOJ IG are encouraged to bring indictments, which happen to be near at hand and in tremendous supply. Hundreds of erstwhile attackers “find justice,” greatly reducing the numbers of those who conspired against the king.

Seeing Scripture repeated is evidence of G-d’s faithfulness and unchanging story.

[1066AD]

Out means OUT.