Deal or no deal… or no Brexit?

As the deadline for the UK to leave the EU approaches, here’s why I don’t think Brexit is actually going to happen

Almost three years on from the EU referendum, the UK is due to leave the European Union on 29 March 2019. In that time, there’s been much bombast from Brexiters, puffed up with the zeal from their hollow victory, who have claimed that a Brexit deal will see the UK ‘taking control of its destiny’ with a better deal than the status quo.

They’ve claimed new trade deals would be forthcoming as states and trading blocs would be desperate to secure trade with the UK. Utterances from Brexiter politicians and commentators have been embarrassingly akin to the sentiments offered by Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’. According to Brexiters, life after the EU could be nothing but better. They couldn’t tell us how exactly, or what that would look like, but we’d be free of those Brussels bureaucrats. Just forget about the economic benefits, cultural and historic ties to Europe, freedom of movement, free movement of labour and EU laws that protect human rights, employment rights and quality of life, eh?

Banksy does Brexit by Duncan Hall is licensed under CC BY 2.0

However, with less than six months to go, the UK is undoubtedly at an impasse. Theresa May has not only been unable to present a plan for Brexit that the EU…