Here's a piece from Iain Martin, a journalist who certainly supports Brexit but who, like Dominic Cummings, is alarmed by the way the Government is going about implementing it.
Paywalled.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/t...bf4cc0cc72404c
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Anyone who has ever worked for a large business or serious organisation will be aware of the need for proper forward planning. Under the cover of all that annoying talk about strategy and “blue-sky thinking”, good companies think ahead and ask practical questions. What are we going to do next year to make more money? What could go wrong? What decisions have to be taken now to avert potential difficulties?
It is in this context, with business and the wider country asking what the precise plan is for Brexit, that the prime minister’s make or break speech in Florence tomorrow should be seen. In the last year business leaders have been messed around enough by the Tories, who all but branded them crooks in their manifesto. Before they lose what little faith they have left in British statecraft and start signing off on emergency preparations for the UK crashing out in a shambolic fashion, May has to produce a clear plan on the sequencing for Brexit.
“Do these politicians not understand how the world works? I’m already having meetings where we’re talking in detail about the second half of next year,” says a senior executive in a leading City firm. “Before you know it we’ll be talking about 2019.” And we all know what is supposed to happen in March of that year.
With that immovable exit date drawing near, it is no exaggeration to say that failure in Florence would constitute something close to a national economic disaster. Unless it is possible by teatime on Friday to give a crisp summary of three key points that would fit in small writing on the back of a business card then May will have failed and business will know it and prepare accordingly.
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Other than politicians engaging in demagoguery, the odd journalist, and random people online who seem to take criticism of the process personally and the words of people like Nigel Farage as gospel, I'm not aware of anyone who thinks the UK leaving the EU abruptly in 2019 without any kind of transitional arrangements and going straight to WTO is a good idea.