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Originally Posted by jfman
The third being walking away without any deal or extension?
You completely underestimate the task of aligning the UK to a no trade deal/no extension scenario if you think that it's as simple as one team in EU negotiations walking away. The implications for the Home Office, HMRC, Department for the Environment and Rural Affairs and the devolved administrations is huge. Yes, those departments are all being stretched due to Coronavirus and no, it's not as simple for them as they have extra people hanging around to work on Coronavirus with no implications for staff who were moved into Brexit related roles.
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You completely underestimate that a provision for a no trade deal/no extension scenario exists. That would then suggest that it would be a matter of agree a deal at all costs because we haven't thought of anything else if we can't do one.