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They're bluffing with crashing out to get a better deal. Won't work. Question is if they'll be stupid enough to do it
Netakure-
This is why I think we'll have No Deal, I'm about 80% on that now. Both sides have completely hunkered down and fortified their positions now, I can't see them change anything:
on the EU side mostly because the damage wouldn't be as high, is distributed amongst several member states, and there's an overruling interest to maintain unity and the guiding principles of the Union.
on the UK side because of the overall deadlock, but mostly due to "will of the people", and this has now been repeated often enough that it's no longer about brexit for a lot of them, but about whether politicians will "listen to the people" - a matter of principle and to hell with any actual reason for doing this. For a lot of politicians, the situation is that they're doing well enough for themselves that they can survive a No Deal, but they could very well be slaughtered in the next vote if they reverse brexit.
So what I could see happening is a number of low-level emergency agreements between the EU and the UK (once it's 100% clear that there will not be any actual deal, i.e. like 3 days before the deadline) that might mitigate some of the most immediate impact, such as the whole "planes not being allowed to land" thing. The EU has actually already talked about such measures - they know what's up.
I.e. my current prediction is: No deal, a mitigated version of the apocalypse, and then slow languishing of the UK economy for the next two decades or so, exacerbated by deep social and political divisions that, while not being healed by repealing Brexit now, will also not be healed by pushing through "Brexit at any cost" either.
I'm sorry it's looking a bit bleak, but I honestly can't see this mess resolving itself agreeably.
SwissChap
I have to say, I'm getting more and more exasperated by this. At first it was just unreasonable unicorn expectations that were clearly never going to happen. Now the whole debate has degraded to arguing purely counterfactually. "The PM to reopen the WA", "Voting for an extension of A50", have these people still not realised they're not just negotiating with themselves?