Blink or No Deal Poll

[TatianaBis]

Interested to know which way Brexiter forumers think it will go:

Last minute U-turn + skeleton EU deal or No Deal.

UK blink in late November

I would go with no deal.
It’s been the objective of those in power for a long time now and a lot of money is to be made by the disaster capitalists.
An utter disaster for the rest of us of course. The only thing that may save us, ironically, is Covid as that has put a load of extra pressure on and not even this lot would want to preside over watching their own citizens die from medications shortages in a global pandemic (or at least not the political fallout resulting from it), I hope...
Those of us who need medication daily are being left in a state of anxiety as to the fears of drug shortages. It’s a nightmare.

We won't be blinking first or any time at all. Hopefully the EU will realise this sooner than later.

No deal this year, but there will eventually be one. The no dealers have never understood that no deal isn't a stable end point.

EU will focus on helping member states recover from the pandemic or cope with a second wave. Thriving UK trading partner is a bonus but not essential to that. We blink.

Just popping on to say Fuck 'em.
Again.

I hope we blink but fear no deal, as I think that’s what BJ’s backers have been after all along. Fuck only knows what happens after that though.

I hope we blink and I just cannot understand the "EU needs us, they'll undermine the union for our benefit" mentality. Of course they won't, nor should they. What a disaster.

The UK government will be blinking like weeping angels in November.

And yes, the PM does look tired.

The EU have single market pit props holding their eyelids up - they can't blink and won't.

The only way they will blink is if they blink so hard they get bojo out. His entire plan was brexit, no deal brexit. The pandemic really messed him up but he's not lost sight of his end game. (Imho)

If the Tory Party fear a no deal brexit then they have got to get Boris out, Boris can't wait for no deal, Covid has played straight in to his hands by taking focus for nearly 6 months away from Brexit.

No deal which I think is what has been aimed for all along. Covid is a gift to them.

No Deal

Threatening to break the WIthdrawal Agreement treaty they signed last year is no way to persuade the EU to sign a new deal

but BJ will keep expecting them to blink, because he hasn't any other idea

He and his ERG chums were crowing about having got the Withdrawal Agreement through Parliament,
but the dozy buggers never bothered to read it
and now they've realised it's not what they wanted ... too late.

No deal. The EU will not blink. They have a lot less to lose than the UK.

I don't know what to think anymore.

The pandemic is a minor inconvenience to DC. Although now useful for distraction and blame. BJ only thought the pandemic got in the way of his shagging programme. Until he was hospitalised. But DC has steered him back on course since then.

No deal is madness. We have voted in populist loons who, like all populists, have contempt for the populus who voted them in.

Not necessarily loons.

Jacob Rees mogg's dad literally wrote a book about disaster capitalism.

Who knows what cummings long term plan is.

They are all wealthy enough to be cushioned.

If the economy is fucked there will be more division in society and more support for things like rolling back employment laws.

Also less outrage if they want to flog off what remains in the public sector.

They have a toe into tfl now which they didn't have before Corona... It works well. It's got loads of expensive land. People have to use it, really. Nothing else makes sense for many journeys. Massive turnover...

Stuff like that.

No Deal. Go into Leave EU sites in social media and they are foaming for No Deal.

Straight into Bannon's playbook. Break the society and culture wars.

I'm.hoping to God that we blink. But I wouldn't put money on it.

Thanks for the replies, an interesting spread.

Just to be clear I meant the U.K. blinking not the EU as in Lord Frost’s: ‘This time we will not blink’.

The EU will not blink.

Personally I’m banking on No Deal, that’s always been the swivel-eyed loons’ plan.

While a humiliating U-turn would be advisable one can pretty much count on Boris to make the wrong decision.

The ordinary people in this country are fucked.

Opportunities being slashed and all our protections over work, food, health will be decimated.

Never been a socialist but this has turned me into one!

No one blinks & everyone suffers for it.

I fear no deal.
I dont think we will blink until it is too late.
Even if the EU were to blink, it probably wouldn't be enough! They could make a huge concession and still have it thrown back in their face!

I expect we'll leave without a deal in a chaotic way by default when the clock runs out. It will catch Boris and the dozier Brexiteers by complete surprise.
Boris will likely be on holiday and unavailable for the weeks directly following the end of the transition.
It will be a shitshow and the government will expend far more energy spinning the blame onto the civil service and the EU than they will trying to mitigate the disaster.

What I'm concerned about now is the reports that the UK will renege on the NI protocol. Although it will bring a united Ireland closer, this is not the best route to it. I suspect it will also help to achieve an independent Scotland.