What next for Brexit

The case for delay and reflection on the issue of Art.50. The Brexit campaign did not articulate a single narrative or option for the UK post Brexit. There are various options on the table most leading to the same state of affairs as remaining in the EU while the drift option is inimical to the interest of the UK. Do we leave the EU and seek to be in the EEA is an option which will allow access to the common market but obliged to comply all the terms of the common market which including the vexed matter of free movement of people. The other alternative is be the Hong Kong of the EU. This is the drift option. We are on our own, seeking trade deals like other Joe Bloggs countries under WTO rules. This would have immediate inflation pressure on the UK economy as prices will rise. The payment of tariffs will increase the prices of goods without an immediate rise in income. Our imports will become expensive while our exports will be equally become expensive to others diminishing the market for our goods. These were not thought through by the ragtag army of little Englanders who sought Brexit. Now that we are were we are, if no compelling reasons to rush Art.50 its best to calmly consider the options before us. The EU can not force a race to Art.50, the Brexiters cannot either they are falling as weeds, Johnson, Farage comes to mind. Gove is too damaged to provide leadership, Duncan-Smith is a silent man with something of the night about him. The Sun and Mail are no longer gun toting about this matter as they were, one wonders where the intellectual articulation of their position will come from. This is why the Chinese say “mind what you wish for, you may just get it” and the Jamaican reggae group Third World sang “now that we have found love, what are we going to with it”. Little Englanders wished for Brexit and they get it and now they sing in chorus, now that we have Brexit, what are we going to do post Brexit.