Most Leavers wanted a Good Deal, rather than No Deal, but then realised all the deals that were actually acceptable to the UK establishment were entirely about ensuring Brexit-in-name-only. The gulf between rhetoric and action became so wide that distrust in Westminster and its institution became near total. It is this collapse in trust that has driven support for a No Deal/WTO Brexit, not a fundamental desire on the behalf of most Brexiteers to leave the EU with No Deal. The birth and meteoric growth of the Brexit Party is a direct product of this collapse.
I am strongly of the view that if a deal with the EU could be reached that left the UK free to make whatever trade deals it wished with agreeable third parties, very few Leave voters would oppose it.
The key element needed is it has to be a deal that does not permit EU institutions and EU regulations any authority whatsoever over the UK except when it is trading with the EU (either directly or via automatic harmonisation of UK regulations with EU regulations, which would the very definition of a ‘Brexit’ that was Brexit-in-name-only).
From the US…
I’ll tell y’all RIGHT now, If you want ANY hope of US economic trade support in a clean cut, no-deal, separation from those EU 8astrds in Brussels, There will have to be an IMMEDIATE reintroduction of the manufacture and export, to the northern part of the U.S. State of New Hampshire, of Callard and Bowser butterscotch candies!
Anything less will have DIRE consequences!
“any authority whatsoever over the UK except when it is trading with the EU” — it sounds so obvious, reasonable and easy. What a lot of bother could be saved by everyone acting in such good faith.