Is the potential British-EU deal to exit the European Union any good?
I
don't follow the details and it would be beyond my abilities to
comprehend, quite frankly. This writer says "no deal is better than this deal."
Perhaps. But I'd add a caveat that no deal is better than this deal if the British actually leave the EU despite having no deal.
Deals can be made after exiting, eh? An EU eager to make deals with
Iran will be willing to make deals with Britain, I think--in time when
they accept the Brexit.
But conversely, striving to get a better deal
rather than this deal if in the end it torpedoes Britain's exit will be a
catastrophe for Brexit. If Britain doesn't exit on time because it
wants to pursue a better deal, the forces for remaining in the EU will
win and another peasant revolt will be suppressed.
Remember, even a poor Brexit deal can be amended over time to make it better.
The only question should be Brexit. Either Britain leaves or it
doesn't. If it leaves, new trade deals can be made to improve Britain's
terms of trade with Europe.
But if Britain doesn't leave on schedule now,
it is stuck forever. The EU apparatchiki will learn their lesson from
Brexit and will make the legal ties of "ever closer union" too tangled
to ever undo short of armed revolt. Nor will their ever be another
popular vote on the issue.
As I wrote before the vote, "Vote Brexit On Sight, Vote Brexit First, Brexit To Kill the EU, Keep Brexiting".