Re: WC 150K Post Challenge - You Ready?!
They were just announcing the talks, they've got some sort of Brexit minister of some kind. Maybe I got it wrong, but that's what it seemed like. They're already counting on hard negotionations and a possibility that they won't be able to reach an agreement. Anyway, it's going to be interesting.
They've had a Brexit minister for months now. They have a whole department actually. They've had to hire tonnes of negotiators and other staff because they didn't have any.
The cost of all this is not being mentioned much but think in the millions just for this part. That's not even including the cost of removing EU law which will take possibly decades.
The lack of an agreement has always been a possibility and for some of the more rabid Brexit supporters it's the 'only' option as far as they're concerned. They don't seem to care what happens to the country so long as the EU is gone and immigration from the EU stops.
The simple reality is no one knows what's going to happen because the negotiations haven't started. The simple truth here is that the UK shouldn't benefit from the EU from any future agreement. Meaning they shouldn't have it 'as good' as a member of the EU, otherwise, what's the point?
If the UK leaves with no deal that means all trade stops with the EU. The UK will simply be black listed. I don't see that happening but you never know.
The biggest part of the negotiations is on money and what kind of relationship the UK will have with the EU. An actual trade deal is a separate negotiation and the EU will bury the UK there as will any other strong economy.
The UK's success has been it's services, with leaving the EU it's shooting itself in the foot and taking off both legs in the process.
The EU has been the biggest benefit to the UK economy, the biggest mistake, which is the same in the US, is that not everyone has benefited from this. It's is those who've been left behind that have caused this.
To put this into perspective, there are tonnes of town and areas in the UK where immigration is less than 1% population but they overwhelmingly voted to leave because of immigration from the EU. Immigration was the number one reason for leaving the EU. Let that sink in.
Oddly enough, a lot of those same people seemed to have confusion between EU immigrants and Asia, India and Middle East countries...