Carried from last thread:

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is very important. There is no new deal … anyone waiting for mid October is wasting time - the time to stop No Deal is next week… https://t.co/ycdgaavmNX

— Paul Mason (@paulmasonnews) August 30, 2019

I recall reading, a couple of months back, an opinion piece by a British writer stating a case that the “No-Deal Brexit”/”crashout” - far from being a “worst-case scenario” which the Tory (May) Government (and its Leaver allies) were, nominally, busting their humps to try to avoid at any/all costs - was in fact, the selected outcome virtually from the beginning; or at least since the 2017 election. The basic thesis was that the hardcore Brexit bloc were so fanatically committed to the UK leaving the EU, that they were (and had been from the start) utterly unconcerned about any negative economic effects a “crashout” might engender, as they planned to either blame-shift or simply ignore any outcry.

I also recall they comments on this column (The Guardian?) castigating the writer for being unduly cynical/negative/biased, etc.: of course, the Brits are just now coming to realize that the present horrorshow has been, in fact, exactly as oulines…..