http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41544588
'No deal' planning is well underway, says minister
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If the EU says at the October Council they don't intend to talk about a future Agreement we must get on with preparing for exit with No Deal
— John Redwood (@johnredwood) October 7, 2017We really are wasting our time with this pack of jokers.Quote:
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The EU refuses to discuss the future relationship until the issues of financial settlement, the Anglo-Irish border and the transitional deal are decided. But how can you decide those until you know what the future relationship is? For example, a future relationship will require some sort of Customs checks on the border with the Irish Republic - so in order to settle that customs question we therefore need to be discussing the future relationship, which the EU is unwilling to do. So we reach an impasse.
The PM today also saying in the HoC to Jacob Rees-Mogg that the ECJ will apply during a transition to me is unacceptable. If the transition was a year long, perhaps, but not two years. I supported her staying in post but that has changed my mind today. If I were an MP then my letter to the 1922 committee would be in the post this week. If Whitehall and the Treasury are dragging their feet over this then get somebody in who will make things happen.
HM Government should actively be setting up Customs infrastructure and regulatory agencies right at this minute and simply say to the EU that we're off in March 2019 so you can either discuss our future relationship now or we'll revert to the WTO tariffs - and you'll get no pensions contributions/a penny once we've left. Put it on THEIR heads. Unless we're ready for March 2019 and we're *seen* to be ready, then it is all hollow words. Get a move on - I want to see huge customs construction taking place at the Port of Dover and on the motorways of Ulster.
Thoughts?