Boris Johnson: Britain will move on if there's no Brexit deal

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

If London and Brussels don't reach a deal by October, the U.K. will be ready to accept this and "move on," Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to say Monday.

The two sides aim to agree a deal on trade and future relations by the time of an October 15 meeting of EU leaders so that the agreement can be ready by the time the Brexit transition period expires at the end of the year.

"If we can’t agree by then, then I do not see that there will be a free-trade agreement between us, and we should both accept that and move on," Johnson will say Monday, according to a statement released to the press ahead of this week's round of negotiations, which begins Tuesday in London.

"We will then have a trading arrangement with the EU like Australia’s," Johnson added. "I want to be absolutely clear that, as we have said right from the start, that would be a good outcome for the U.K. As a government we are preparing, at our borders and at our ports, to be ready for it."



Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/06/boris-johnson-brexit-no-deal-409487

[nitpicker]

1. Brexit: Boris Johnson to override EU withdrawal agreement

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/06/five-weeks-clinch-brexit-deal-uk-move-boris-johnson-to-say

Boris Johnson is drawing up legislation that will override the Brexit withdrawal agreement on Northern Ireland, a move that threatens the collapse of crunch talks which the prime minister has said must be completed within five weeks.

Johnson will put an ultimatum to negotiators this week, saying the UK and Europe must agree a post-Brexit trade deal by 15 October or Britain will walk away for good.

But progress on the already fragile talks will be threatened by plans revealed on Sunday for the UK government to publish a controversial section of the internal market bill on Wednesday that will intentionally try to unpick parts of the withdrawal agreement signed in January. It will include elements of the special arrangements for Northern Ireland that are legally binding.

A UK government source told the Guardian the plan was part of the preparation for a no-deal exit that would present a number of new barriers to trade from Northern Ireland – and accepted that the move was likely to blow up at the negotiations this week.
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[Miguelito Loveless]

4. Johnson, apparently also taking orders from Putin

Will not be happy until he restarts the civil war in Northern Ireland.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. "preparing, at our borders and at our ports, to be ready for it."

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender ...."

Boris is a weak echo of history.

[maxrandb]

3. Like a dog returning to eat its own vomit

I feel bad for the UK people that didn't vote for this shit, but I hope their economy ends up looking like a 4th World Hellscape.

Something has to happen to wake people up from the authoritarianism and racism that is marching across the globe like a Nazi Blietzcreig.

It took the absolute reduction of Germany to rubble to end this shit.

It's probably what has to happen to the rightwing in the UK.

It's probably what needs to happen to the Retrumplican Party and white supremacists in our own country.

[paleotn]

5. Move on....crash....and then burn.

They don't need you, Britain. You need them.

[ArizonaLib]

6. Those British conservatives have been working on this since Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech

in 1968. I think that movement is seeing its heyday and when they can't reasonably show anything good came of it, they will be back.