DMcG wrote: I set out below what I mean by "going well" in a conversation with Keith.

Will you?
Date and time of this? The ....If this happens we could both decide that we do not need to eat any pie at all

That's sounding very like a 'no', you know, Stanron.

To be precise, Keith and I were only talking about the 'no-deal' case. As to the date and time, it is earlier in this very thread. I said 'below', which is a bit confusing because it depends how you read the threads, but 'earlier' is clear enough. And it was based on fairly measurable things, like whether the motorways are being used as lorry parks three months after March 29th 2019.

For 'a deal', I am not sure there is too much measureable we could address within a year, given nothing much is likely to change before the end of the transition.