It would be interesting to have a discussion/ share information about the practical issues surrounding Brexit, for those who have an interest in the legal and administrative aspects of the problematic question of what is Brexit, and how are we going to implement it.
With that in mind I thought I would share two very interesting papers/ articles that I read today, one about the practical complications of how and whether EU citizens in the UK will be made "legal" after brexit, and another on the timeframe and political and administrative complexities of any type of brexit (which concludes, interestingly, that a soft brexit may be harder to achieve).
www.niesr.ac.uk/blog/let-them-stay-eu-nationals-uk-after-brexit#.V54QnoZHmrV
www.statecraft.org.uk/research/delivering-brexit-analysing-risks-and-opportunities
A couple of quotes:
"To describe the likely outcome of this process as a bureaucratic nightmare is an understatement. The Home Office is understaffed for its current tasks and this is getting worse. There is simply no way that it could cope with having to examine, on a case by case basis, the documentation of up to 3 million people. There would be huge delays. Tens of thousands of people would be wrongly rejected and would have to appeal, making things worse. At the same time to be remotely practicable the checks would have to be very light touch, making the system wide open to fraud." (Jonathan Portes on how the government will assess whether 3m+ EU migrants have met the cut off date for the right to remain).
"The importance of ensuring uninterrupted British capacity to trade across international borders cannot be underestimated. As the historian Robert Tombs has pointed out, the principal reason for the collapse of British staple industries in the 1920s and 1930s was the redirection of British business and people to the war effort from 1914 to 1918. During the war years, American and Japanese businesses entered international markets once dominated by British businesses; once competitors were established in those markets the British were never able to return on the same scale as before the war[4]. There is a danger with hard Brexit that, if there is a failure to ensure interrupted free flow of trade, Britain could once again see a significant loss of market access which would never be able to be fully repaired." (Dr Alan Riley arguing that economic damage due to disrupted market access in a hard brexit scenario could be permanent)
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Implementing brexit - practical issues
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Mistigri · 31/07/2016 16:07
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