| Quote: | |  | |
| France, Germany & Spain will be in deep shit with no deal, by leaving with no deal you put the ball in their court. A50 states 2 years so no unnecessary hurry at all, the Uk did not choose 2 years as the time frame. | |
| | |
That's the old, and anything but intelligent, argument along the lines of cutting your nose to spite the neighbor.
"Yeah, it will have huge consequences, potentially lethal for many. But a few Irish will die as well so it's all good" - it really can't get any more moronic.
Besides, it's a bit of a change from the initial "every country will want to have a trade deal with the UK, getting them will be trivial".
See the announcement by Next linked to on here a while ago, they count on zero import tariffs, whereas UK's export destinations will be forced to impose 30% import tariffs due to WTO regulations. Obviously that would render UK's exports mostly noncompetitive.
As for all the rest, see Odile's #22843 and Troubleawesome's #22844 for additional elaborations. Plus the two before them.
(Welcome back Odile btw)