No A50 this week (lol)

[northernladyuk]

No wonder the union is collapsing. Anywhere else in the world and the government would be looking to invoke military action to free the oppressed people.

Scotland has a much easier route to independence that Catalonia.

[vetran]

Scotland can have an advisory vote just like you lot did.

yep find the cash & do it, don't see why England to pay for it.

SNP are in charge up there aren't they, raise some taxes as they are permitted to do and Rob Roy is your Aunty.

[vetran]

Scotland has a much easier route to independence that Catalonia.

unless of course Spain harpoons Scotland's route to encourage the others.

[PurpleGorilla]

No A50 this week (lol)

yep find the cash & do it, don't see why England to pay for it.

SNP are in charge up there aren't they, raise some taxes as they are permitted to do and Rob Roy is your Aunty.

This would be easy to crowd fund.

[northernladyuk]

unless of course Spain harpoons Scotland's route to encourage the others.

Spain can't harpoon Scottish independence, only Scottish membership of the EU, which would be kind of amusing.

Which is a timely reminder that any of the 27 states can harpoon any kind of deal with the UK, so it's a good job Theresa has WTO rules to fall back on. All it needs is for the UK to activate its individual membership of the WTO. Which needs all WTO countries to agree. Including Spain. And Argentina.

[PurpleGorilla]

Spain can't harpoon Scottish independence, only Scottish membership of the EU, which would be kind of amusing.

Which is a timely reminder that any of the 27 states can harpoon any kind of deal with the UK, so it's a good job Theresa has WTO rules to fall back on. All it needs is for the UK to activate its individual membership of the WTO. Which needs all WTO countries to agree. Including Spain. And Argentina.

It's in the EU's interests for a deal with the UK. Once the ideology is spent, the finance grown ups will put a rudimentary deal in place.

[northernladyuk]

It's in the EU's interests for a deal with the UK. Once the ideology is spent, the finance grown ups will put a rudimentary deal in place.

But Theresa has WTO in her back pocket, so that's great, isn't it?

[AtW]

It's in the EU's interests for a deal with the UK. Once the ideology is spent, the finance grown ups will put a rudimentary deal in place.

Wrong.

It's in EU's interests that UK gets no deal or super bad deal for UK, but awesome for EU, so that others don't follow this stupid path.

[northernladyuk]

So there's a risk that the UK may not be able to reach a deal with the EU. However a leading Brexiteer suggests there is no risk of this.

Theresa's contingency is to fall back on WTO terms, which the UK cannot access.

Whoops!

[PurpleGorilla]

Wrong.

It's in EU's interests that UK gets no deal or super bad deal for UK, but awesome for EU, so that others don't follow this stupid path.

I don't see how that can be achieved. Unless the EU agrees a smooth orderly and seamless transition and new relationship; the deal will be bad for the EU. Granted it will also be bad for the UK but it will be bad all round.