What is the WTO option? (Short thread) A short clarification: in the extreme sense, it means changing from what we have now to third-state status without any changes in the law.
It is this analysis that leads to alarming notes like “no planes will fly” etc. Many observers agree and are convinced it won’t come to that, because the parties would get together in late March 2019 and strik a set of emergency deals.
These would presumably be short, one-issue only deals, a whole list of them.
In your analysis, however, be aware that the EU has to follow its procedures.
Such procedures take time (think mandate, think involvement of Council, EP).
There’s a tragic irony in the fact that emergency deals might not come through fast enough because of a parliamentary scrutiny that exists on the EU side, but not on the UK one.
