Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: Your Quick Guide
By Ian Dunt
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'Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Highly recommended.' — NICK COHEN, THE SPECTATOR
'Compact and easily digestible. I’d encourage anyone who is confused, fascinated or frustrated by Brexit to read this book – you’ll be far wiser by the end of it.' — CAROLINE LUCAS MP
'I would strongly recommend Ian Dunt’s excellent guide. Dunt has taken the extraordinary step of asking a set of experts what they think. I learnt a lot.' — PHILIP COLLINS, PROSPECT
Britain’s departure from the European Union is riddled with myth and misinformation — yet the risks are very real. Brexit could diminish the UK’s power, throw its legal system into turmoil, and lower the standard of living of 65m citizens.
In this revised bestseller, Ian Dunt explains why leaving the world’s largest trading bloc will leave Britain poorer and key industries like finance and pharma struggling to operate.
He argues that Brexit is unlikely to cause a big economic implosion, but will instead act like a slow puncture in the UK's national prosperity and global influence.
Based on extensive interviews with trade and legal experts, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now? is a searching exploration of Brexit shorn of the wishful thinking of its supporters in the British media and Parliament.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ian Dunt is a columnist for the I newspaper and appears as a pundit on BBC TV, Sky News and Al-Jazeera.
With Dorian Lynskey, he presents the Origin Story podcast and is a regular contributor to the Oh God, What Now? podcast.
His most recent book, How To Be A Liberal (Canbury, 2020), is an epic history of the spread of the ideas underpinning personal freedom.
EXTRACT
What is the European project?Britain has always been deeply ignorant of the motivation behind the European project. The most common British response to European politicians is indifference, followed by frustration, followed by mockery. But without understanding Europe, you can’t effectively negotiate with Europe.
Ultimately, the European Union arose out of the ashes of the Second World War. In 1951, to prevent future disputes over resources, six nations agreed to trade freely in steel and coal. In 1957, the nations of the Coal and Steel Community (France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg) signed the Treaty of Rome, founding the European Economic Community, which created a bigger common market and a customs union. Over time this common market attracted more nations and became the European Union.
For years Britain stood outside this club. In 1951, Prime Minister Clement Attlee declined an invitation to join the Coal and Steel Community, dismissing it as ‘six nations, four of whom we had to rescue from the other two.’ Britain also spurned the European Economic Community in 1958. While the European states looked to each other for peace and prosperity, the UK, with its still large empire and its special relationship with the United States, gazed overseas. Britain and the Continent were divided not just by geography, but by conflict. A great deal of the British psyche derives from the fact that we have not been invaded for centuries. We went through incredible suffering during the world wars, but it fell from the sky. It did not march down the streets in jackboots. On the mainland, that trauma was and is personal: the social memory of a neighbour’s betrayal, death camps, and tyranny. The EU is considered a barrier to conflict and carries an emotional weight we struggle to understand. Our MPs underes
Ian Dunt
Ian Dunt is editor of politics.co.uk. He specialises in issues around immigration, civil liberties and social justice and appears as a pundit on BBC TV, Sky News and Al-Jazeera. Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now? is his first book. He said: 'I wanted to write a book which could be read in a few hours, but allow someone to win arguments about Brexit for the next decade.' Unlike other books about Brexit which look back at the EU referendum campaign, What the Hell Happens Now? looks ahead to the impact of leaving the EU on the EU.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I honestly can't believe Brexiters are still using the "negotiations are like a game of poker" argument. Honestly, I can't believe it. It shows that even now, you have virtually no comprehension of what is going on. Either that or you're pretending not to. The Prime Minister doesn't have a "hand" to play. He's got nothing. No leverage, no plan, no clue. His "strategy" is to insist that alternative arrangements exist to solve the border problem, but he won't say what they are. And that the EU should just trust us, honest, we're good for it mate. It's pitiful to see the state Brexiters have reduced the UK to.My outlook into the grim future of the UK:There is absolutely no way that the UK will come together again, the divide of the UK citizens over the last 3 years will become a never ending nightmare for you. If you leave the EU, then the Remainers will refuse to get behind anything which is planned "to reunite the UK "while constantly working on trying to find a way back into the EU. Even after you leave, regardless of No deal or deal, the aftermath of Brexit and trying to rejoin will continue to dominate your news and politics for the unforeseeable future. The UK is so divided that, aside from Scotland and NI leaving the UK, England will actually have the biggest problem as you are verging close to a civil war, even if violence will be avoided."Do you support Brexit or want to rejoin the EU" will become a standard question in all parts of life, romantic relationships will not happen between people with opposite opinions, pubs will be either one or the other, etc., etc.This divide is what will destroy the UK, and England in particular, as you know it.The EU have already spent 3 years negotiating a withdrawal agreement with the UK government which protects the rights of one of their members, Ireland, and for which Johnson voted in favour. Why on earth should they re-open this agreement just because Johnson and his ERG chums have seized power? Absolutely nothing to do with stopping Brexit. They have already agreed Brexit in the WA but must be sick to death of the stupidity of the Tories. The UK, after creating the ill thought clusterfuck that is Brexit, after squandering EU time, after begging for a prolongation, is simply reneging the WA its PM duly signed, and the GFA international treaty it also signed to keep Ireland peaceful. The WA complies with both the GFA and the UK red lines and includes the backstop demanded by the UK (instead of a sea border).And still there are some individuals braying that it is all the EU fault!The UK: A nation that has collectively expelled its brains in the sewers.Revoke and re-think is the only way out now:MPs, having already allowed themselves to be persuaded that austerity was a necessary tool rather than an ill-informed political construct, went on to accept a carelessly planned referendum, to accept the illegitimate result, to accept that 37% of a preselected electorate in this rigged referendum should represent "the country", went on to vote to trigger Article 50 without examination or discussion. MPs have so far failed Britain dismally. Having made such an utter mess of the whole process, they refused a referendum which would have given everyone the chance to review the idea, and perhaps find a path of compromise that could have prevented the present impasse. MPs failed again. They can gather themselves together to revoke article 50 now, and perhaps go down in history as having done something useful after all, perhaps even as heroes. Or they can sit on their hands as they have done for the last decade and forever be remembered as the most pointless shower of nonentities ever to take taxpayers money.