EU UK TRADE DEAL REFLECTION - WHO HAS CONTROL NOW?
EU UK TRADE DEAL REFLECTION - WHO HAS CONTROL NOW? - 1350 words (100 word Summary at the end) Some of this is openly declared hindsight because we now know more than we did a week ago. Was No Deal an option? Now that we know how close the two sides were in the final weeks (as measured by the fact that they finally agreed), then I don't believe that No Deal was in fact seriously being considered by the UK side in December, despite all the noises to the contrary, because it would have been viewed as insane to take all that unnecessary pain - why accept all the tariffs now, “justified" by the concern that some limited tariffs might be imposed in the future? That makes no sense, as was pointed out. Of course, if there had been other massive issues then the Deal might have broken down for other reasons, but (we now know for definite) there were not. Fish was touted as a stumbling block but in fact the UK stuck to some demands until the timing was right to finish the discuss...