The UK government recently published papers detailing the situation for business and population in case of a No-Deal-Brexit.
The papers paint a dystopian, horrible future where the UK economy would crash.
Obviously, everyone, except for a few extremist Brexiteers, will want to avoid that future. The papers thus put a lot of pressure on everyone to come to a reasonably decent deal, in line with the Chequers Statement (The cabinet met at a countryside mansion to discuss and agree on the way forward). Two extremist Brexiteer ministers resigned a few days after that meeting because they strongly disagreed.
The outlook presented in the No-Deal-Brexit papers is so horrible, that they are essentially a tool to prepare Remainers, Brexiteers, the EU, the UK government and population for what I call a Brexit-In-Name-Only, a BINO.
The UK will formally leave, yet continue to be in the Single Market, the Customs Union and assure the Freedom of Movement in one way or another. A bespoke deal will be cut that renames all of the above instruments to implement a BINO. Saving face for all actors, avoiding mayhem to the economy and population. The deal will provide reasonable certainty for EU people in UK and UK people in the EU and assure continued frictionless trade between UK and EU as well as the UK trading under the trade agreements the EU has made with most of the world.
The fascist uprising in UK would loose steam, calm would return and we can all go back to business as usual.
With the UK so divided and the political class so split, there are great risks ahead.
I do hope we can pull together without compromising the pillars on which Europe is built and has been successful and peaceful for the last 70 years. The dystopian No-Deal-Brexit papers will help.
I wrote a few more posts on Brexit: This is one of them.