Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?: Your Quick Guide - Softcover

Dunt, Ian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0995497850 ISBN 13: 9780995497856

Publisher: Canbury Press, 2017

Synopsis

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NICK COHEN - HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
PROSPECT - EXCELLENT
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'I'd encourage anyone who is confused by Brexit to read this book' - Caroline Lucas, Green MP
'Excellent... a must-read' - AC Grayling, philosopher

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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 make 65m people poorer.

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.

Based on interviews with legal and trade experts, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now? reveals Brexit shorn of the wishful thinking of its supporters in the British media and Parliament.
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Reviews

Admirably brief and necessarily brutal... Whatever your position during the referendum, you ought to read Dunt because he is willing to face uncomfortable facts. Highly recommended. (Nick Cohen, 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)

Introduction

A No Deal Brexit

The clock strikes midnight and Britain is out of the European Union. The talks have fallen apart in mutual acrimony. The UK has not secured continued membership of the single market. It doesn't even have access. It is out of the customs union, too. It has no trade deals with Europe or anyone else. It is on its own.

In the early morning, a lorry is loaded in Glasgow with radio equipment bound for the Czech Republic. When the lorry arrives at Calais, it is stopped by a customs official. Until today, Britain has enjoyed a seamless trading relationship with Europe. It means that European Union countries recognise UK standards and paperwork and vice-versa, allowing goods to be transported over borders without additional checks. Now the paperwork is worthless. Everything has to be checked.

The lorry is stopped and detained. Inspectors come on board and take samples to send off for testing. Everything will have to be assessed, from the information on the packaging to the environmental impact of the components. This will take several days, during which the lorry is barred from entering the European market.

Behind the Glasgow lorry, several other vehicles are taken to one side. By sunset, the bottleneck on the French side means that lorries can no longer drive onto Calais-bound ferries at Dover. They queue on the slow lane of the A2. Within a few days, the tailback stretches back to London.

For exporters of animal products such as meat and eggs the problems are more severe still. They are only allowed into the EU through specially designated entry inspection posts, but it has been so long since the UK needed them for trade with Europe that none exist. British exports of salmon, beef, and lamb collapse overnight. In Westminster, ministers demand the immediate creation of the inspection posts, but they have limited leverage with their European partners. A key export industry starts to rot...

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Review

In his admirably brief and necessarily brutal, Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now?, Ian Dunt tells how civil servants brief business leaders while they wait to meet David Davis. For all his appearance as a tough guy with the strength to handle the most complicated diplomatic crisis the British have faced since the Second World War, Davis seems closer in spirit to a bubbly PR girl than a hard-headed statesman.

He wants to hear only good news. On no account must businessmen and women say they are worried about Britain abandoning its membership of the single market, the civil servants warn. They needed to go into the meeting saying that they were very excited by the possibilities of Brexit. Anyone who felt differently tended to be asked to leave in the first five minutes. If he is thrown out of politics, Davis could make a new career as a happy-clappy vicar...

Whatever your position during the referendum, you ought to read Dunt because he is willing to face uncomfortable facts.(Nick Cohen, The Spectator) --http://www.spectator.co.uk
I would strongly recommend Ian Dunt's excellent guide to what happens next. Dunt has taken the extraordinary step of asking a set of experts what they think about matters of law. This is one of the few books of the set to face forwards rather than backwards and it is all the better for that. I learnt a lot, which I find often happens when I have the humility to listen to experts. (Philip Collins, Prospect Magazine) --http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
The book is no rehash of pre-referendum arguments, nor does it rehearse the soap operas within the rival campaigns. Rather, it is about the present moment: a succinct, readable synopsis of hundreds of thousands of pages of technical reports, currently careening around the panicked corridors of Whitehall. (Richard Elwes, Medium) --https://medium.com/@richard.elwes/brexit-what-the-hell-happens-now-eae9884b1b4

About the Author

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 at the process of leaving the EU, including a no deal Brexit.

Ian is a regular contributor to the Remainiacs podcast. He swears a lot on his Twitter feed.

Brexit: What the Hell Happens Now? Contents

Introduction
What was that?
What did we vote for?
What is Article 50?
What is the European project?
What is the single market?
What are the politics of the European Union?
What about freedom of movement?
What about the economy
- Norway
- Switzerland
- Turkey
- Canada
The World Trade Organisation
How can we keep the UK together?
- Scotland
- Ireland
What are we going to do?
- What do the Brexit ministers want?
- How talented are they?
- What tools do they have?
What is the context?
- The economy
- The City of London
- Immigration
- The parliamentary battle
Making a new country
The time problem
What happens after Brexit?
Postscript
List of experts
Acknowledgements
References

Edition details

• Publisher: Canbury Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0995497850
• ISBN 13: 9780995497856
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 192