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X : What's the worst brexit outcome?
Me : The most incompetent is we agree to pay the "settlement" (i.e. goodwill) for extension of article 50 to June and when we leave then we discover the WTO preparations (which should have started in early 2017) didn't start until late 2018.
Me : The most incompetent is we agree to pay the "settlement" (i.e. goodwill) for extension of article 50 to June and when we leave then we discover the WTO preparations (which should have started in early 2017) didn't start until late 2018.
Of course if you're wandering into that territory then you may as well go ridiculous i.e. we pay "settlement" for extension and then revoke article 50 and have to pay for settlement and negotiate with EU 27 as we've signed away our unilateral right to revoke in the extension etc.
But both of those sorts of ideas assumes that the entire intellect of the Government is equivalent to a small carrot, the treasury is run by Del Boy & Rodney and the civil service has the guile and foresight of Mr Magoo. None of this I believe.
Instead I expect this will either be statecraft and we're not leaving or if we are then surprise! The civil service will have been carefully and diligently preparing for much longer than anyone suspects and Gov will have more wit about it than anyone has given it credit for.
