If the EU refuses another extension and the UK doesn't revoke, they're out and chaos ensues.
The EU has said they won't approve any deal that does not include the backstop. Even if the UK is somehow miraculously able to "leave" without the backstop, as Peter has noted and documented quite well here, even ignoring the not insubstantial work that would have to be done to craft a new UK-EU trade deal and have it agreed, the UK will be scrambling to replace all the EU regulations currently present with their own.
There are messy divorces and then there's this abortion.
They had their 500 uninformed fools and we had ours. We murdered Socrates here with Trump. They murdered Socrates there with the Brexit referendum. There can be no one left to defend the idea of democracy wherein "the common man" is allowed any say in how a society is governed.
There are messy divorces and then there's this abortion.
They had their 500 uninformed fools and we had ours. We murdered Socrates here with Trump. They murdered Socrates there with the Brexit referendum. There can be no one left to defend the idea of democracy wherein "the common man" is allowed any say in how a society is governed.