National Audit Office Warns of Brexit Customs IT Train Wreck….Nine Months After Naked Capitalism
Yet another big Brexit disaster in the making.
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Single Market Maze Contains Clues to Complex Brexit Puzzle
Brexit boosters have sidestepped the issue of reconstituting trading arrangements, a major lapse.
Read more...More Brexit Backpedaling, UK May Relent on ECJ Red Line for “Transition Period”
Yet more Brexit bad news just before Theresa May is set to present her Great Repeal Bill.
Read more...Brexit Starts to Go Pear Shaped from UK Side as Businesses Freak Out
British businessmen are starting to wake up to what Brexit really means for them, but their proposed fixes are yet more wishful thinking.
Read more...Can EU Actors Keep Using Common Law After Brexit?
The widespread use of English law in financial contracts poses yet another set of tricky post-Brexit issues.
Read more...Brexit and the Future of the Irish Border
Why there is no good solution of the Irish border problem in Brexit, and how the Tories’ new buddies, the DUP, have contradictory goals.
Read more...EU Firms Up Brexit Bill Negotiation Position: Ask of €99.6 Billion Gross Liabilities
Some of the finer points of Brexit negotiations come into focus.
Read more...Final UK Election Polls: YouGov Still the Outlier, Predicts Tories Get Only 302 Seats
Conventional wisdoms still pegs the Tories as comfortable winners in today’s election, with the election map working against Labour.
Read more...For ‘Easy Brexit’: May’s ‘No Deal’ Campaign Rhetoric Is Nonsense
If May holds on to her Prime Minister job, her irresponsible Brexit campaign talk may come back to haunt her.
Read more...Despite Wobbles, Theresa May Still Expected to Lead Conservative Win This Week
Despite Theresa May looking at risk in many UK polls, the distribution of seats in play may give the Tories the advantage.
Read more...Pharmaceutical Industry at Risk from Brexit
Yet another potential Brexit casualty….
Read more...Government Austerity Demands That We Die Within Our Means
Theresa May’s plans to intensify austerity are costing her votes. About time.
Read more...International Arbitration Is the Way to Settle the UK’s Brexit Bill
Arbitration would be a good way to resolve the thorniest Brexit issue, of settling the tab. But politics seem to preclude a sensible outcome.
Read more...Hoisted from E-Mail: Puzzling Out the UK’s Shambolic Approach to Brexit
Trying to make sense of the UK’s Brexit pathology.
Read more...UK’s Brexit Derangement Becomes More Visible as May Puts Foot in Mouth and Chews
As short seller David Einhorn has said, “No matter how bad you think it is, it’s worse.” I thought I was at risk of being unduly dire in my early readings on Brexit, which was that the two sides have a large gap between their positions and have been talking past each other. Early on, […]
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