Beware! Extending the Brexit transition period does NOT delay our departure from the EU. Brexit Day remains 29 March 2019.
Once Brexit Day passes, we're OUT. We can't delay or reverse Brexit, because it will already have happened.
Transition merely delays the CONSEQUENCES.
Once Brexit Day passes, we're OUT. We can't delay or reverse Brexit, because it will already have happened.
Transition merely delays the CONSEQUENCES.
Note that many newspaper front pages have not presented yesterday's "row" over an extended transition period that way at all. They made it sound like we're still stuck inside the EU for longer. That's just plain wrong. But it gets their readership riled up, and sells papers.
Once we're in transition, we've already lost the EU's 750+ treaties and trade agreements (though their effects may be rolled over by transition so we won't notice immediately). So that means there's a brand new cliff edge at the end of transition.
We also have zero negotiation power at that point, because we can't threaten to walk away from the talks as we're already out. We've Brexited, so our fate is already sealed. A cliff edge is GUARANTEED, with all its horrible consequences (see thread below)
