Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Josquius]

Very odd today
Usually any mention of brexit sends the pound tumbling but today somehow it rose a fair bit after her speech.
Not as bad a speech as was feared?
It being better to have certainty than uncertainty even if it is certainly doomed?

[celedhring]

Honestly I don't think the speech revealed anything that wasn't already known or assumed. At least to me.

[Tamas]

Very odd today
Usually any mention of brexit sends the pound tumbling but today somehow it rose a fair bit after her speech.
Not as bad a speech as was feared?
It being better to have certainty than uncertainty even if it is certainly doomed?

I am assuming everyone is relieved to some degree that there are at least basic sketches of what might one day become a plan.

[Tamas]

Honestly I don't think the speech revealed anything that wasn't already known or assumed. At least to me.

Up until now, officially, all we knew that they wanted all the advantages of EU membership without a single bit of disadvantage.

This speech acknowledged they are aware that isn't really possible.

[grumbler]

I think that this is the first bit of real leadership by may that has made it across the pond.  Yeah, the news isn't good news, but at least it ends the biggest uncertainty.

[garbon]

I think that this is the first bit of real leadership by may that has made it across the pond.  Yeah, the news isn't good news, but at least it ends the biggest uncertainty.

First bit of leadership that she has displayed in the U.K. media too.

[Tamas]

Indeed 

[MadImmortalMan]

Sounds like a good time to visit the UK for tourists. 

Almost as cheap as a weekend road trip. Plus, now you can fly Los Angeles to Bristol for $70. Norwegian Air getting ready to do the same thing. Transantlanticize Ryanair's model.

[Zanza]

Does someone understand the part about leaving the customs union but having a customs union with the EU...?

[Zanza]

If she actually means the "no deal is better than a bad deal", we can all save a lot of time and effort and don't negotiate at all. It will be a bad deal as the good deal is what Britain has just decided to exit from.

[garbon]

If she actually means the "no deal is better than a bad deal", we can all save a lot of time and effort and don't negotiate at all. It will be a bad deal as the good deal is what Britain has just decided to exit from.

Don't be dense.

[Archy]

Does someone understand the part about leaving the customs union but having a customs union with the EU...?

I think a deal like Turkey has.

[Josquius]

If she actually means the "no deal is better than a bad deal", we can all save a lot of time and effort and don't negotiate at all. It will be a bad deal as the good deal is what Britain has just decided to exit from.

Don't be dense.

He's right.
Britain had an excellent deal with the EU. Massive special  treatment.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Get it right, this is how your comment should read :

#Tyr Britain had an excellent deal with the EU. Massive special  treatment. FACT!!!

[garbon]

If she actually means the "no deal is better than a bad deal", we can all save a lot of time and effort and don't negotiate at all. It will be a bad deal as the good deal is what Britain has just decided to exit from.

Don't be dense.

He's right.
Britain had an excellent deal with the EU. Massive special  treatment.

I won't tell you not to be dense as that would be futile.