1) Like any political force, the primary objective of the government is to retain their majority in Parliament and survive the next election
2) With these assumptions in hand, the government strategy of aggressive, often misleading, and exclusively domestically focused, communications starts to make a lot more sense.
3) UK negotiators can claim it's unafraid of No-Deal if the majority of the UK public have been convinced:
A) EU requests are unreasonable.
B) UK tried its best to be fair
C) No-Deal is fine.
D) Any hardship is patriotic suffering in the face of EU regulatory colonialism.
4) The advantage of this for the government is that politically it's win win.
If they're right and the EU buckles, they get the FTA they want and return as heroes. If they're wrong, the groundwork is in to politically rebrand failure as justified resistance to EU extortion.
5) Another is that the consequences of Brexit, especially of one on WTO terms, promise to be fairly significant. To increase public support for walking away from the table, the government must constantly talk these down. That could have consequences both practical and real.
no doubt brexiteers will read the above and claim: no deal will be fine. please dont bother, its untrue and thus ever so tedious.
2) With these assumptions in hand, the government strategy of aggressive, often misleading, and exclusively domestically focused, communications starts to make a lot more sense.
3) UK negotiators can claim it's unafraid of No-Deal if the majority of the UK public have been convinced:
A) EU requests are unreasonable.
B) UK tried its best to be fair
C) No-Deal is fine.
D) Any hardship is patriotic suffering in the face of EU regulatory colonialism.
4) The advantage of this for the government is that politically it's win win.
If they're right and the EU buckles, they get the FTA they want and return as heroes. If they're wrong, the groundwork is in to politically rebrand failure as justified resistance to EU extortion.
5) Another is that the consequences of Brexit, especially of one on WTO terms, promise to be fairly significant. To increase public support for walking away from the table, the government must constantly talk these down. That could have consequences both practical and real.
no doubt brexiteers will read the above and claim: no deal will be fine. please dont bother, its untrue and thus ever so tedious.
