It appears that with six months to go, our British government has finally realised that we may have to leave the EU with no exit deal.
Should they not have been making preparations for this potential situation when article 50 was triggered around 18 months ago?
When I voted to leave the European Union, I assumed that the UK would actually leave the European Union, as in: Goodbye, We are leaving, We are going back to the old EEC rules or even earlier.
The more I hear, the more I feel that we have been betrayed, and that the politicians are playing games to keep Britain sort of, partly, almost, in the EU, but with all the financial penalties and none of the benefits
And, as more than one Irishman has pointed out, the big problem is not the “Irish Border”, but the “British Border Across Ireland”.
General Whiskers' semi-historical wanderings 
“… the “British Border Across Ireland”.”
The British in that line include many Irish who are pleased to be British.