WHATEVER May, Davis, Juncker and Barnier say today and have said these past weeks, it’s entirely posturing, chest to chest, who blinks first, mine’s bigger than yours stuff.
For nobody either side of the Channel has the slightest real clue what to do – this is totally uncharted ground, amazingly complex and nerve-jangling for all parties.
Brexit will formally happen in about 18 months from now. But we will still be in the EU in five years’ time, gradually, bit by bit sliding out with agreement on all sides. A slow detumescent withdrawal rather than Mercatus Interruptus.
ALLAN FRISWELL Keighley Road, Cowling
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