It's a mess isn't it?
We probably don't have a lot [more] to lose by leaving on 31st October without a deal if that is how it falls now.
What matters then is what happens afterwards.
What some people still don't appear to have brought into their thinking is that we are as far from a 'forever' deal as we were in 2016. The May deal was only a transitional one. In effect, if we leave with no deal it makes a mess but at least we'd have found the bottom and that would, hopefully, be an alternative transitional state.
Given the likely improbability of getting any material change to the WA, we might as well, as you say, get on with it with or without a deal, into one transitional state or the other. To the extent that the EU was ever going to be motivated by the prospect of no-deal, it will cease to be a bluff and become reality. As will our own wounded foot.
Last edited by: Manatee on Tue 3 Sep 19 at 17:33
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