It is as if readers of Conservative Home (founded by Tim Montgomerie), all dyed in the wool Tories at the very least and mixed with refugees from UKIP and The Brexit Party, have not been reading the news these last few months. All the stuff about food shortages and lorry queues and portaloos the length of the M20 (who is going to empty them by the way?) and more recent warnings by the NAO of widespread disruption seem to have gone over their head. That or they still think it's all scaremongering.
Northern Gunner says:
"There is no doubt, however, that these members of the cult of EU will exploit any opportunity to extend our submission to the EU because they know that they could never again con the electorate into joining the nascent European super-state with its debt mutualisation, EU army and failed currency, especially not when it involves the re-seizure of our once rich fishing grounds."
Mags100 writes:
Now is the time to uphold the outcome of the brexit vote and leave on wto if necessary..remainers will continue to agitate and campaign to bring about a 'soft brexit' but Boris must deliver independence from the EU or suffer the consequences.
Terence_S says:
How the remoaners are still at it. They just can't let go. Now is the time to leave under WTO, let's not forget the pressure is also on the EU. They will cave in and quickly offer terms that an Independent Sovereignty would expect with respect.
Underweather thinks:
Trade will be progressing on the assumption of no deal. It's just clicks on a computer screen that exists for all trade going through terminals and bonded warehouses. Quotes will have already been provided for delivery after 1st January. The current exchange rate to the euro is 1:10, when the euro was first introduced 1:60 to the pound. That's quite a margin. Any company trading regularly will have their own arrangements sorted. A distributor or brass plate office in EFTA countries or Channel Islands.
These are just a few examples which I'll keep handy because they are going to go barmy when Boris agrees to an extension. These sort of ravings are interspersed with the occasional critic and rational thinker who agrees with Gauke but is then subjected to a barrage of vicious comments.
The Bank of England are already forecasting a damaging hit to the economy next year and a reduction in British exports even if we succeed in getting a deal.
When the extension comes to an end there will still be disruption because some companies will never be ready. The extended transition period will be given a title that makes it appear something else and Gove will hide behind a barrage of semantics but everybody will know what it is. The period will be used to wind back contracts and rejig supply chains - all to the detriment of British industry.
The main objective now is to keep the wool pulled over as many eyes as possible. Johnson, Gove and Cummings cannot afford a disruptive exit - even with a deal - because it would reveal the empty hollowness of Brexit and that's the last thing they want.