“The Cliff Edge” - doesn’t exist.
For it to happen, we would have to see the EU cutting ALL ties with Britain thus creating that cliff edge on November 1st.
This includes:
Building a wall between North and South Ireland overnight
Recalling all shipments of goods on their way to the EU, and refunding all payments already made (if they don’t, Britain is free to help itself to assets held by the EU within the UK)
Refusing all delivery of UK goods arriving in the EU, and trying to get a refund, if those goods have already been paid for, but now the EU don’t want to take delivery of…
Trying to re-manage their budget, now that it is £39billion initially, and thereafter around £1billion per month “short”.
Trying to enforce their “rights” in our fishing waters - when we’re close enough to confiscate all their vessels if need be first
Trying to evade our customs efforts to export more non-EU immigrants to the UK across the channel, when once out of the Strasbourg HRC - we’re no longer obliged to take any citizens from anywhere but “commonwealth” nations.
Disrupting exchange-agreed contracts for commodities, along with their deliveries.
WE are not the ones that’ll be going short of food, as we have the choice of importing from the wider world. How are the Landlocked EU nations going to get hold of things like saltwater Fish though?
A cessation of “shared intelligence” which won’t matter so much to the UK, because we’ll be stopping the would-be terrorists from arriving in Britain in the first place. If anything, France is going to be in dire straits, as their nation fills up with all those villains who now cannot get across the channel, but have full yuman rights to claim benefits, get housed, practice their illegal activities, and not be obliged to get a job and pay taxes ever…
The “Transition Period” - is the last three years. Any “further” transition period - will be because the EU cannot implement any of the above to stop or start - because the supertanker steers like an asteroid, and always has. No need for the UK to pay for the EU’s folly in being “Too big to fail”.
The EU needs to reform it’s transport links - and fast!
Britain - is already well on the wall to reforming ours.
Less Euro trunks, more domestic tramping. Less “nights out”, more “home every night Trunking”.
Less depots near Ports, more depots near central Britain’s motorway corridors.
And doya know what? There’s no need for ANYONE already here to be “sent home” amongst all that…
“Craking down on Immigration” - is satisfied by simply “not letting anyone come here without a job lined up”.
If you’re here and working - they can stay. If you’re here and scounging benefits, then convict them of some crime under Patel’s new home office programme - and get rid of them.
Most people don’t care much about the “Immigration” aspect of Brexit, or UKIP would be polling better than it is.
It’s all about the MONEY and “Ending Austerity”. That’s it. Something you’d think that ALL parties would dream of having and doing - but no.
Brexit is the golden goose for the one who completes it, and Pandora’s box for the ones that were not on watch when that happens.
So much for politicians and their “for the good of Britain” - when they are clearly acting in their own partisan interests - nothing more.
It’ll be interesting to see “who resigns, and who doesn’t” should the Tories gain a handful of seats, but still be short of a full majority, whilst Labour lose a handful of seats, putting a coalition against the Tories further out of reach than ever.
It would be even MORE interesting if Labour GAINED a handful of seats - but have the choice of ONLY being able to go into coalition with the Tories or Brexit Party, because the SNP and Libdems have both lost seats, putting them out of contention as potential coalition partners…