Brexit

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Alby_da_Wolf said:

 

 

JRPGfan said:

It hasnt happend yet..... the UK leaves the EU on march 29th (I thinki it was).

Its looking like the UK are makeing a mess of things, and will have no deals in place for that day.

Reguardless of laws/trade deals ect, it kicks in on the 29th, and it looks like the uk, wants to put on a blindfold and jump off a cliff.

palou said: 

The EU is by far the largest trade partner of the UK. A no-deal brexit would mean, that there would be an immediate implementation of tariffs (as dictated by the WTO between two members without other agreements) and border checks. If having tariffs/border checks is viewed as a positive or negative is a debate I won't touch, but the fact that it is so *sudden* in itself creates significant logistic issues, since the existing infrastructure doesn't assume any such barriers (which various sectors of the government and private enterprises are trying to prepare for - we'll see how effective it is.) For example, a big part of UK medical supplies come from the EU - the UK national health service is consequently prepping for a temporary shortage. (I would assume they would have a fair handle of what's necessary - I wouldn't expect people to die due to this.) The majority of the food in the UK comes from the EU; Again, probably no starvations in Britain, no need to be melodramatic; but a significant price hike, in the transition, is very possible. As a whole, it's mostly going to be a very *expensive* procedure, for both governments, and the private sector, needing to make immediate adjustments to the market situation. 

A thing I don't understand is blaming just May for this mess. Couldn't the members of Parliament give May a list of points she should have asked for when dealing with the EU, and possibly a confidential minimum list to settle on if not all points were accepted by the counterpart, BEFORE she started discussing the deal? 

 

Pretty sure they did. Also sure that several of those points would have been refused outright from the EU.

Blaming it on May is unfair, it's due to the Parliament demanding much more than the EU is willing to give, and while the EU has made that very clear, the Parliament leaders don't want to relent on their demands. In other words May is sitting between a Rock and a hard place, having to juggle the demands of her qualition partners with what the EU is willing to give, which is basically an impossible task.