Firms can't cope with no deal and virus

[Eirikur]

Carolyn Fairbairn said a CBI member had likened a no-deal to "setting the shed on fire" while the house was in flames

Firms can't cope with no deal and virus - CBI boss - BBC News

[DimPrawn]

Snowflakes

[BlasterBates]

Best to hide Brexit under the Corona virus. Once unemployment rises above a few million the numbers become irrelevant, it's like counting an ant colony.

[rootsnall]

After all the bleating and grandstanding we'll end up with some form of free trade deal. European big business has no interest in screwing the UK as it means they screw themselves and that will ultimately drive EU decisions. If we have to sell fishing down the road then so be it. Brexit will make next to sod all difference longer term one way or the other.

[BlasterBates]

After all the bleating and grandstanding we'll end up with some form of free trade deal. European big business has no interest in screwing the UK as it means they screw themselves and that will ultimately drive EU decisions. If we have to sell fishing down the road then so be it. Brexit will make next to sod all difference longer term one way or the other.

British business has no interest in screwing the UK, but Britain is still leaving the EU.

[elsergiovolador]

British business has no interest in screwing the UK, but Britain is still leaving the EU.

We already left.

[darmstadt]

We already left.

Nope, Brexit has been 'done' but the UK is still a member of the EU until the end of the year...

[Paddy]

Nope, Brexit has been 'done' but the UK is still a member of the EU until the end of the year...

Nope, you're wrong... I know as I already have extra paperwork to complete.

During the Transition Period, the United Kingdom is no longer a Member State of the European Union or of the European Atomic Energy Community. As a third country, it will no longer participate in the EU’s decision-making processes. It will also no longer be represented in the EU institutions (such as the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers), EU agencies, offices or other EU bodies.

Transition period | European Commission

Following the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union on 31 January 2020, we have entered a transition period.

This time-limited period was agreed as part of the Withdrawal Agreement and is currently planned to last until 31 December 2020. Until then, it will be business as usual for citizens, consumers, businesses, investors, students and researchers, for instance, in both the EU and the United Kingdom.

The EU and the United Kingdom will use these months to negotiate a new and fair partnership for the future, based on the Political Declaration agreed between the EU and the United Kingdom in October 2019.

The transition period starts on 1 February 2020 and ends on 31 December 2020.

It can be extended once, by up to one to two years. Such a decision must be taken jointly by the EU and United Kingdom before 1 July 2020.

During the Transition Period, the United Kingdom is no longer a Member State of the European Union or of the European Atomic Energy Community. As a third country, it will no longer participate in the EU’s decision-making processes. It will also no longer be represented in the EU institutions (such as the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers), EU agencies, offices or other EU bodies.

However, and as agreed with the United Kingdom:

All EU law, across all policy areas, is still applicable to, and in, the United Kingdom, with the exception of provisions of the Treaties and acts that were not binding upon, and in, the United Kingdom before the Withdrawal Agreement entered into force. In particular, the United Kingdom will remain in the EU Customs Union and in the Single Market with all four freedoms (of movement of goods, capital, persons and services) and all EU policies applying.

All institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the European Union continue to hold the powers conferred upon them by EU law in relation to the United Kingdom and to natural and legal persons residing, or established in, the United Kingdom throughout the transition period.
The United Kingdom continues to participate in EU programmes and to contribute to the Union’s budget covering the period 2014-2020.

[elsergiovolador]

Nope, Brexit has been 'done' but the UK is still a member of the EU until the end of the year...

Where did you get that? We have left, but we are still bound by some rules by the end of transition period.