I love Brexit.

Surely mrs may has played a blinder and knew this would happen.
Its out there now for all of europe to see that unless there are changes it will be a no deal bexit.
They dont want that so will i think definatley make the deal sweeter for the uk.
I know other countries want out and the eu dont want to make it easy or put them in a better place outside of the eu; but the uk is a huge player compared to most and each deal for each country can be a tailored fit.
May is harder than she is given credit for and has more balls than most of her male MPs.

What annoys me is most politicians know what they don't want i.e. May deal but what they do want is unacheiveable

At least May deal has a long term plan of transition period and we can move forward. No deal takes us nowhere and we would take an almighty financial hit, imagine the markets on 1st April? I reckon pound and USD would be 1 for 1, FTSE would be on it's knees. It would take many years to get it back.

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I hope you are right but I doubt it. Mrs May doesn't need to remove the backstop she just need to get the EU to agree to a termination clause that can be activated by either side. The EU probably won't agree this as it is the key card for the future trade agreement.

I suspect that Mays May will come back with some form of non binding statement that they EU will play fair however this will not be enough for people who think this is a bad deal as it is not legally binding.

Anyway lets hope I am wrong.

One more point

The backstop is a side show. The whole deal is designed to be punitive to the UK and most of the evidence says a no deal would be more than manageable. We have protection of trade under WTO rules and non of the border issues are insurmountable. Only 2-3% of goods are checked anyway.

We should walk away but we won't.

More than that. An absolute mountain out of a molehill. Purely a technical issue about VAT. And the Eire/NI border is not frictionless as it stands. The Irish customs are all over people for a variety of reasons. Heating oil is the prime example with a whole slew of Customs experts all more than confident that a solution could be put in place in a relatively short time. As it stands almost all customs declarations are done electronically.

Also, less than half a percent of British exports actually cross there.

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." - 1984 - George Orwell.