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Even if you were correct, negotiating treaties takes time and the British politicians have already demonstrated major lack of skills in this area.

EU tried for 30 years to come to agreement with Brits. they dragged their feet and caused lots of friction even when they had great offers. Why would things be better this time?

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Things tend to happen extremely quickly in real emergencies. They might get some bad trade deal but people wont starve.

U.E. has already treaty with many countries or others unions (like UE), so it might be pretty easy. Also looks at economical situation in UE, they are not in a situation where they can be in economical conflict with (or at least isolated from) a country like UK

Seriously, what is U.E. ?

...well, i'm french, it's written that way, but i can't seriously believe you didn't guess. Right ? ;)

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