Benefits of a No Deal Brexit
- Kills the Brexit Party stone dead
- Marginalises the Tories for a generation
- Resolves forever the "European question" (yes, we *need* them)

Consequences
- Localised economic crash
- Decades of austerity
- Permanent loss of manufacturing industry

- Trust in politics (all politics) at record low
- Emboldens the Far Right
- Fans the flames of racism (like after the referendum but on steroids)
- Guts the NHS
- Removes forever the notion of the UK as a major world power
- Constrains the life chances of young people

So on balance and despite the temptation, let's just say no to no deal, eh?

PS If you're not yet sold, bear in mind that I deliberately left out the biggies: shreds the Union, and threatens the peace in Northern Ireland.

Oh yes, no deal Brexit is the political and economic equivalent of every natural disaster all rolled into one... all self-inflicted!