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Cliff Edge anyone?

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whitewave Fri 30-Jun-17 07:31:33

This term gets bandied about in relation to Brexit without any of the consequences attached to it.

I have just done some research/ reading and thought it was time we all had the opportunity to discuss what exactly a "cliff edge Brexit" means and whether it can be taken seriously as a "no deal is better than a bad deal" deal.

So talks have failed and our government decides to go it alone.

It is day one of Britains great adventure

We have no trade deals with the EU or the rest of the world.
The economy goes into recession
We now have in front of us several years of negotiating trade deals both with our potentially biggest customer -Europe and the rest of the World.
Countries like Argentina and others that bear a grudge will block any dealings with the WTO.
Getting exports to Europe will become an absolute nightmare, as even if we have successfully arranged our borders for a post Brexit scenario, Europe has only just begun to get their border controls in place for the flow of goods to and from the UK.
The SE becomes a huge lorry park as good stand waiting to be processed. There is a potential for shortages to occur- particularly in relation to food, as there is only one port in Europe that is set up to deal with this commodity, and that is not yet functioning.
Issues like "country of origin" causes complete chaos for business and everything becomes a bureaucratic nightmare.
Flights are delayed/cancelled until the UK can do its own deals with regard to flight rights.
And of course as we have read only recently, nuclear material will dry up, threatening cancer and other treatment.

References are available on request????

Rigby46 Sat 15-Jul-17 13:55:06

Ah right - issue of interaction between EU charter of fundamental rights and European convention in HR and how loss of former could impact on latter - do you mean Boris et al hadn't thought about this before the referendum? grin

whitewave Sat 15-Jul-17 11:44:05

Schona Jolly yesterday's paper 14/7

whitewave Sat 15-Jul-17 11:42:42

OK hang on

Rigby46 Sat 15-Jul-17 11:30:56

Can you give me the date please and I'll read it online

whitewave Sat 15-Jul-17 11:11:24

Found it, I read it in an article in the Guardian, it is by a Humans right lawyer. If you can't find it I will quote from it for you if you want

Rigby46 Sat 15-Jul-17 11:04:57

But I thought we had the Human Rights Act? confused

whitewave Sat 15-Jul-17 10:50:54

Davis has confirmed that the charter of Human rights won't become UK Law.

In my view this must be challenged immediately.

whitewave Sat 15-Jul-17 10:48:56

I wonder how much connection there is between the looming divorce bill and the pay cap for public sector workers. Are the going to be made to pay for Brexit?

whitewave Sat 15-Jul-17 10:46:35

Soubry says that there is a growing consensus for a Norwegian safe harbour

whitewave Sat 15-Jul-17 09:02:00

Watching Farage the fraudster a couple of days ago.

He seems very close to inciting violence it seems to me. Still perhaps if we give him enough rope!

Imperfect27 Sat 15-Jul-17 07:40:35

Exactly!

Tegan2 Sat 15-Jul-17 07:36:29

I can't get my head round the argument that is 'we don't really know what we've voted for but we're sure it will turn out ok in the end'....'we voted to take back control but we don't actually have any control over what we've voted for but we're not worried about it so neither should the remainers'.

whitewave Sat 15-Jul-17 07:31:43

We are mostly remain on here. For some reason the Brexit people have gone quiet.

I wish they would come on and give some sort of reassurance that in their view all is going swimmingly.

But the remainers are in fact getting more and more concerned as time goes on

Imperfect27 Sat 15-Jul-17 07:26:55

Too much prosecco if I'm honest grin, but thank you Tegan - I tentatively came online this morning expecting to meet with a barrage of anti-remain comments ...

Tegan2 Sat 15-Jul-17 07:01:47

Well, if there were no typos you'd have to call yourself Perfect 27 smile. Agree with everything you've said, by the way....

Imperfect27 Fri 14-Jul-17 22:27:32

(Sorry for the typos!)

Imperfect27 Fri 14-Jul-17 22:26:04

Jumping in here as I haven't got the time or energy to reads through 18 pages of posts.

I feel the Brexit campaign was fought on lies and misinformation - and perhaps a lot of misinformation too. As the dust settles and all the ramifications for leaving become clearer, the brexiteers that I know are now saying
'' If only I has known all the facts.'' The remainers are still being told ''We voted for this so put up and shut up.''

I find it hard to understand, now that more facts about the inpact of Brexit are emerging and NONE add up to a better deal for us than we have already got in terms of jobs and economy ... I really do fail to understand why at the very least people are so reluctant to countenance a vote on the final exit deal before it is adopted.

Sorry if this repeating what others have already said, but it totally bemuses me as to why this is so contentious when time and again more politicians and Joe public alike seem to be saying we have probably made a very bad mistake.

Tegan2 Fri 14-Jul-17 22:00:11

But we did know it would be like this; it's just that it was labelled 'project fear' and ridiculed sad....

MargaretX Fri 14-Jul-17 21:43:44

I also heard Mathew Parris on World at one. I was shocked to hear of the state the government is in and surprised no one knew it would be like this.
The EU parliament has hundreds of internationally trained lawyers and translators and the Uk will get the bill for their services and all Boris can say is 'why should we have to pay to leave?' What world is he living in?

whitewave Fri 14-Jul-17 19:35:17

Talking to my daughter today who works for a large pharmaceutical company, and she was telling me about how Brexit is going to affect the operation of the company.

There are numerous issues all difficult and it is very likely that parts of the company will relocate - which for the company is no big deal as it has a presence in most of the EU. The problem for the UK of course will be loss of jobs and revenue. The Brexit officer for the company told the meeting that they had received zilch information from the government, and in his opinion the government new nothing anyway.

whitewave Fri 14-Jul-17 09:44:43

Can anyone tell me why the E27 foot the bill for all the extra customs facilities that will be needed when we leave? I suspect that they will insist that we foot the vast majority if the bill.

whitewave Fri 14-Jul-17 09:37:05

I see we have conceded that we will have to pay a divorce bill.

What a fool Johnson is.

whitewave Fri 14-Jul-17 09:35:03

Matthew Parris former conservative mp said on world at one yesterday that Brexit is dying and the government is in terrible trouble. He went on to add that the Barmy Brexit Brigade - the hard right Brexiters have May sort of captive in Downing Street and don't want to change her as there is no one else whom they can manipulate to do want they want.
As each month goes pass it gets worse and worse said Parris.

whitewave Fri 14-Jul-17 07:49:09

4 government papers were launched yesterday, including European Union (withdrawal) bill.

So the HMS Brexit has set sail with all the outward appearance of a great ship of state, but with little sign of life below decks.

Anyone looking for the ship's course or likely destination will be disappointed. We don't even know the exit day, it has been left blank - rather like the Barmy Brexit Brigades brains.

With thanks to Dan Roberts.

MaizieD Thu 13-Jul-17 23:10:45

Here's a twitter thread to amuse the Remainers:

twitter.com/JolyonMaugham/status/885586131017924612

grin

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