UK Lays the Brexit Line on the EU: October 15 or ‘Move On’

The UK left the EU on January 31st. The terms of Brexit allowed for a temporary deal, a complete package with a framework, or a WTO fallback deal frequently described as “hard Brexit”. 

The UK and EU have until the end of this year to do something or a World Trade Organization hard Brexit kicks in.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is fed up with EU demands on fishing rights, immigration, and state aid.

Johnson laid it on the line on September 6th. His latest stance is October 15 or ‘Move On’ 

“If we can’t agree by then, then I do not see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on,” he will say, according to comments released by his office.  

If no deal is agreed, Britain would have a trading relationship with the bloc like Australia’s, which would be “a good outcome”, Johnson will say.

“As a government we are preparing, at our borders and at our ports, to be ready for it,” he will say. “We will have full control over our laws, our rules, and our fishing waters.”

EU Overestimates Its Hand, Again and Again

Keep in mind that the EU never thought the British referendum would pass in parliament. When it did pass the EU never thought that the UK would actually leave the Eurozone, or if it did, then leaving would be on EU terms.

Even after the landslide election, the EU was sure Johnson would not walk away from the Eurozone because it was 27 EU nations vs. 1 sovereign nation, and supposedly 27 nations have the advantage.

However, when 27 nations have to all agree unanimously to get something done, guess what? It doesn’t get done. That is a hard political lesson that EU elite in Brussels still havsn’t learned.

The EU elites are simply in denial that Johnson and the conservative government of Britain are absolutely united on the principle that “Out means out” and that therefore the UK will be leaving regardless of a deal.

There is still time for a deal, but it will not be the one-sided affair envisioned by the EU therefore. However, it’s clear the EU continues to overestimate its hand to its own peril with a hard and disorderly Brexit 18 days after December 14th Solar Eclipse.

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