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  • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday January 07 2021, @02:33PM (5 children)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Thursday January 07 2021, @02:33PM (#1096452)

    Your BBC link is broken (404).

    > saving face was more important than actually keeping the UK in a reasonably functional state

    Are you saying that hard brexit would have been better?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07 2021, @02:50PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 07 2021, @02:50PM (#1096455)

    Fast, hard change is always better. People adapt quickly when they have no choice. Drawing things out leads to confusion and doubt, and that's before anyone else tries to meddle.

    • (Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Thursday January 07 2021, @07:13PM

      by PiMuNu (3823) on Thursday January 07 2021, @07:13PM (#1096610)

      > Fast, hard change is always better.

      Look up "adiabatic".

      Economically, businesses have to adapt to new working practices, and that takes time (e.g. introduction of customs regulations). If that is not done, then they simply stop trading => bad news.

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday January 07 2021, @06:17PM (1 child)

    by Gaaark (41) on Thursday January 07 2021, @06:17PM (#1096560) Journal

    Remove ). at end of link

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @04:10PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 12 2021, @04:10PM (#1098903)

    no. I'm saying he should have agreed to a deal sooner. I believe he purposefully delayed the negociations so that even a bad deal would be seen as a positive.