Hard Brexit will drag us down and bring price hikes, travel chaos and smuggling

[barryqwalsh]

As Theresa May's UK government prepares to trigger Article 50 and begin the exit negotiations, it seems highly unlikely that talks deciding the nature of the UK's new relationship with the EU will begin any time soon. The divorce talks come first and then the basis of the new relationship comes later.



The Europeans are in no hurry. In the UK, most of the business community know what they are facing. Some of the public do too. But there are large swathes of the Tory Party and the British media which remain utterly naive about what is going to happen.

In fact, the challenges facing the British economy from a hard Brexit, in which it leaves the EU single market and the customs union, are so enormous it is hard to believe that such an outcome will actually emerge when all of the talking is over.



Hard Brexit will drag us down and bring price hikes, travel chaos and smuggling - Independent.ie

 

[Eloy]

The English Tory party has done awful damage to the British people. It was always a British tradition that their representative democracy reserved important constitutional issues to parliament and not a referendum. This particular referendum oversimplified a complex series of treaties Britain has with its European Union partners and forced the electorate to make a binary choice of Remain or Leave. Such a downright dopey question and all because of an election promise to satisfy the eurosceptics among the Tories and to take the wind from the sails of the UKIP party. Nothing good will come of it.