Or, to be more precise, there isn’t one that satisfies them, the Europeans, British business and British workers. There isn’t one that corresponds to the ludicrous promises they made. They cannot come up with something that, on the one hand, avoids any jurisdiction of European courts of any kind; avoids any payments into a European budget; avoids all membership in a European customs union and allows Britain to do trade deals with other countries; while, at the same time, keeps supply chains running smoothly; keeps the Irish border open; preserves tariff-free trade with Europe; and imposes no costs on anybody — and all of this by next October in order to leave the following March. It just cannot be done.
Let this be a lesson to UK voters. When you sign away your independence, you no longer have enough independence to be a nation. So all the promises they made are contractually due. If they violate the contracts then they end up giving up european trade until european courts have their say. The alternative is to wait for Italexit, then the screws are on Germany.
The best bet is hard exit and resolve the court battles. Trade with Europe mostly means deficit owed to Germany, and court battles are worth more then ECB fees to Germany.
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