Actually are civil servants the right people for this job?

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They're the only people who can do the job. Obviously they may need some expert guidance and advice, but I fail to see who else would have the working knowledge of government administration, law, process, requirements and legal obligation.

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I doubt it, the EU broadly is beneficial to administrative systems of the UK, UK government and UK economics. Just removing the ECHR which has served as the highest appeal court of the UK for over 50 years is incredibly complex. The Conservatives found this out when they were talking about 'removing the Human Rights act' and replacing it.

In terms of subsidies and the stability of sectors of the UK economy, business regulations etc the UK has largely passed a large amount of its own internal mechanics to the EU systems.

For example we don't have a department of trade and industry any more, we have something that vaguely covers aspects of that, but for a large part, the standisation of the EU, meant a large part of regulations and business control was centralised - Now the UK not only has to regulate industry and business in the UK, but also negotiate individual trade agreements, as competition to the EU.

Remember as well that the EU and ECC allowed us to also scale back whole areas of the Civil Service and remove certain specialisations, which were picked up centrally.

When you get people shouted down for saying an exit could take 10 years, rather than people listening to why they think it will be ten years, the problem is simply ignored.

None of this will be easy, and of course we don't really have the EU to assist us with this either (if you want to find specialists in obscure areas of legislation, the EU is the place to go).

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Like I said before, there will be challenges on both sides, and at this stage estimating how long the process will take is surely guesswork.

For me, yes, it guess work, but I would imagine if your the civil service, its more a reasonable degree of estimates based on different scenarios.

The problem is, that government and Brexit supporters seem to see anything that might be unpopular as being Remoaners.

Of course there is a degree of guesswork because the government itself hasn't really made much progress towards the activation of Article 50, or what an exit from the EU will consist of (seeming to be very much in the camp of an exit being as little of an exit as possible).

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