Category Archives: Brexit

Another Brexit Mess: “Grandfathering” Existing Free Trade Agreements Looks Unlikely

Another item on the Brexit problem list: what to do about free trade agreements that will cease to apply to the UK on Brexit day.

UK Asks the Rest of the World to Be Super Duper Nice and Act as Its Old Deals Are Still Valid Post Brexit

Yet another Brexit train wreck.

Will Upcoming Brexit Negotiation Round Finally Cause Hard Core Brexiter Heads To Explode?

Brexit screeching gets ever louder as it becomes harder to keep reality at bay.

The EU as Britain’s Constitutional Stabiliser?

More than it thinks, Britain may need EU membership to preserve its national integrity and ancient constitutional settlement.

UK Consternation Over EU Not Accommodating City of London in Brexit…Just As It Said It Would Not Do

The UK financial services is being told “no” yet again….will the message finally sink in?

UK Political Pressures Rise….Because EU Does Exactly What It Has Been Saying It Would Do on Brexit

When you think the UK has made as much of a mess of Brexit as it possibly can, it manages to do even more.

Latest Tory Brexit Row: Another Bun Fight or a Cage Match?

More Brexit hissing and spitting from the Tories.

Darkest Hour – What Does a Rash of Winston Churchill Portrayals Tell Us About Brexit Britain?

On the UK’s Churchill boomlet.

Another Brexit Casualty: The Channel Tunnel, aka Eurostar

Why the impact of Brexit on Eurostar will literally be a train wreck.

In Brexit Tug-of-War, EU Aims at City of London’s Tax-Haven Empire

The Brexit row over banking is starting is to come out into open….

Brexit: UK Still Refusing to Do Any Thinking Re Trade

The UK is going nowhere fast on Brexit, except it is trying even harder than before to blame the EU for its problems.

Exposure to Brexit in Regions on Both Sides of the Channel

A granular analysis of which regions will lose most from Brexit.

EU’s Michel Barnier Clears Throat to Tell the UK It Won’t Get a Special Deal…After God Knows How Many EU Leaders Have Already Said That

The EU is still making a lot of noise to get the UK to begin to hear things the EU has been saying since the morning after the Brexit vote.

David Davis Points Out Brexit “Breakthrough” Isn’t Binding as Draft European Council Statement Tightens the Screws

More discussion of the overhyped Brexit “breakthrough” of last Friday.

Brexit “Breakthrough”: Headfake or May Trying to Engineer Further Capitulation to EU?

The UK has managed show “sufficient progress” so as to be allowed to go to the\ next phase of Brexit talks. But what does that really mean?