Now Then What's All This About?

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/publicity-drive-to-prepare-public-for-possible-no-deal-brexit-11597637
either a) the PM has accepted that her non deal will not pass and is making sensible prep and advising the public?
or b) She's using a series of public information films etc to scare the Commons to go for her BRINO deal for fear of no deal?

[jim360]

Or both? But mainly (b) I imagine.

[fiction-factory]

the last part of (a) is advisable anyway. We should start to prepare a contingency plan for a no deal.
And it's not surprising she would do (b) try to persuade MPs to support her.
So that's what it's all about.

[Old_Geezer]

The governments and organisations should prepare. Individual citizens just need to adjust to new rules etc. where they have changed.

I suspect scenario b) as more likely.

[ToraToraTora]

I also think b) is what she's up to. She's going to run the clock down then put the BRINO deal to the commons at the last minute and hope she's scared the bejesus out of the invertebrates there in.

[-Talbot-]

Haven't we left?

According to the French woman at Grenoble Airport a few days ago the UK had left the EU and the price for cigarettes to my son was different from that of actual EU members.

Just a bit of xenophobia then was it?

[jim360]

I hope you don't find out how naive you're being about No Deal -- or, alternatively, I hope I'm wrong in being wary of it -- but, in either case, it would not be spineless to avoid it given all the expert warnings and in-depth studies that have shown that No Deal would be highly damaging to our economy and prestige.

[-Talbot-]

Don't forget to mention how wonderful it will be for the EU, Jim.

[jim360]

Won't be good for them either, as a matter of fact, but in percentage terms the UK will take a bigger hit than the EU.

[Old_Geezer]

Debatable, but even were it so, the UK is then free to rebuild with the rest of the world, the EU has no white knight to pick up their pieces. They need to just cope.

[cassa333]

Scare tactics to get BRINO.

A sad indictment of our times that a. The prime minister can be so duplicitous and b. MPs are so remainextremists or frightened they will cave in and agree the worst possible deal that has ever been made in the modern world.

[Kromovaracun]

OG

//the EU has no white knight to pick up their pieces. //

Do you really think this is what's going to happen to the UK in a no-deal scenario? That a 'white knight' is going to come in and help us?

[retrocop]

We were France’s ‘White Knight’ back in 1944 when we stood alone.
Our White Knight was the USA and the rest of the Commonwealth so history repeats itself only this time we leave France to stew in it’s own juice with the Germans.

[Kromovaracun]

Why does it always come back to the war?

It couldn't be because this whole project is motivated by nostalgia, could it?

[youngmafbog]

No the whole project is not nostalgia however much you would like it to be.


We can expect a lot more of this from Treason TTT she is hell bent in pleasing her EU masters.

We can also expect to see a COB Government next time too if she capitulates to the GDR leader.

[Old_Geezer]

We don't need a white knight. That was the point. Our merchants go out and make UK trade great, our government discusses mutally beneficial trade deals, we progress. Whereas the EU has to find their replacement funding from within.