TagliatelliMonster
Veteran Member
Talking about timing, right?
Could this Corona crisis have come at an even worse time for the english, I wonder... It's kind of hard to imagine.
Brexit already had quite a few economic setbacks and implications going for it. Now it's only going to be exponentially worse... At a time the economy needed a major boost to be able to handle the backlash from brexit, public life comes to a virtual standstill and the biggest economic crisis since WW2 happens.
What I also have wondered about... what does this mean for brexit negotiations concerning a trade deal? It seems to me that the vast majority of politiciens and european/brittish institutions have bigger things to worry about now. It was already kind of... eum... "ambitious" to think there was going to be a trade deal in just one year. Now I think it's safe to say that it becomes close to impossible.
I hear that brexiteers have already, amidst the worst humanitarian crisis in a century, been pumping their chest and screaming that "corona is not going to make us postpone the deadline!!!!" - almost as if they are happy to have another excuse to still crash out without a deal.
Common sense would dictate that this is not the time for such chest pumping and macho talk, but rather to put the entire brexit thing in the freezer and reasonably conclude that it's not going to happen this year.
I think it's clear that the economic repercussion of just the corona crisis is going to last for years and be much worse then with the financial crisis 10 years ago. Adding Brexit macho's to that, seems to be a recipy for further economic disaster.
So what do you guys think?
Could this Corona crisis have come at an even worse time for the english, I wonder... It's kind of hard to imagine.
Brexit already had quite a few economic setbacks and implications going for it. Now it's only going to be exponentially worse... At a time the economy needed a major boost to be able to handle the backlash from brexit, public life comes to a virtual standstill and the biggest economic crisis since WW2 happens.
What I also have wondered about... what does this mean for brexit negotiations concerning a trade deal? It seems to me that the vast majority of politiciens and european/brittish institutions have bigger things to worry about now. It was already kind of... eum... "ambitious" to think there was going to be a trade deal in just one year. Now I think it's safe to say that it becomes close to impossible.
I hear that brexiteers have already, amidst the worst humanitarian crisis in a century, been pumping their chest and screaming that "corona is not going to make us postpone the deadline!!!!" - almost as if they are happy to have another excuse to still crash out without a deal.
Common sense would dictate that this is not the time for such chest pumping and macho talk, but rather to put the entire brexit thing in the freezer and reasonably conclude that it's not going to happen this year.
I think it's clear that the economic repercussion of just the corona crisis is going to last for years and be much worse then with the financial crisis 10 years ago. Adding Brexit macho's to that, seems to be a recipy for further economic disaster.
So what do you guys think?