Brexit & potential “fallout”?

[barq2]

Thank you very much for the information,  Quick Fix, I appreciate your insight(s) on the situation
My hope is that it would not affect the current US political relations and put the UK in a more “unfriendly” position, but I highly doubt it, if anything maybe the opposite? Again, I’m politically ignorant, thanks.

I wouldn't think the UK would be seen in an unfriendly way from the USA (obviously it's a bit different with the EU, since the UK has seriously tested its patience). The UK will want a close trading agreement with the USA. From a US perspective I'd think the changes would be more for big business, as they have traditionally used the UK as an English-speaking bridge between the USA and EU. They'll move their European headquarters from the UK into France or Germany.

But as QuickFix pointed out, there will be no practical change during the transition period. I tend to agree there's a good chance of that being extended, and maybe extended again. Turns out when you've been integrated into a political and economic union for many years that extracting yourself is like the world's most complicated divorce. I suppose it would be a bit like if California decided to leave the USA, how do you disentangle that?, who pays for what?, and what type of border do you have?, etc... It's not a perfect analogy, and most Americans I know are far more attached to the idea of the USA as a nation, rather than the EU which is a series of agreements between separate nations.

The whole thing is very complicated. I honestly think the UK would have found it easier and cheaper to have built and launched a British manned mission to the moon than negotiate Brexit!

The only substantial thing I'm aware of is that the UK are recruiting more people to work for customs. But I think that's because a harder border will exist between it and the EU, so they'll have to check more paperwork and passports. But the focus seems to be mostly about goods and regulatory standards, nothing suggests it is about what goes through the mail. If it does go in that direction, UK members of the forum would notice quite quickly as the number of deliveries dropped and the amount of "love letters" spiked.