Theresa May's Theresonous Brexit Deal

This "deal" will cost the British taxpayer £60 billion; require that the British still comply with EU rules without having any say in what those will be, and worst of all, it permits the British to leave the EU only if the EU agrees. It commits the British effectively to subjugation by the EU in perpetuity, with no recourse should the British change their mind. It is a prison. It is also the first step of the EU toward its dream of global governance: unaccountable, untransparent, unelected by the public, and with no way out. David Brown, Gatestone Institute

What's the alternative? No deal, obviously. Without a "deal," the UK's membership of the EU will lapse on March 29, 2019, without, according to the House of Lords, any legal obligation for the UK to make any payment to the EU. After that, the UK should just trade with the EU on a tit-for-tat basis. The EU with an $11 billion trade surplus with the UK is not going to screw its own exporters by putting tariffs on British Biscuits and Whiskey if that means equal tariffs on German cars and French wine.

As for Ireland, yes there'll have to be a border between North and South to protect the UK from uncontrolled migration, unless of course, the Irish decide to exit the EU and enter into a migration control agreement with the UK. This the Brits should encourage, for example by offering to pay 90% or more of the cost of a bridge between Ireland and Britain, thereby making it possible to drive all the way from Dublin, via the Channel Tunnel, to Paris, Berlin and Beijing.

Maybe the Irish would even consider a highly devolved political union with the UK to create an independent Federation of the British Isles: a federation to preserve and perpetuate the languages and cultures of the ancient nations of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales — a friend-of-all-the-World, without entangling alliances, a danger to none but those who would harm her, for which purpose Britain's independent nuclear deterrent would be retained pending a safer means to insure national security.

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