Why NO DEAL Brexit creates an instant nightmare for the EU because Irish/UK border cannot be closed

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Just returning from Brussels which was gridlocked yesterday with all EU national leaders. Boris Johnson set to become UK's next Prime Minister at next such gathering - part of long term global shift against politicians with carefully written, measured autocue speeches packed with well-researched facts, in favour of leaders who are more spontaneous, impulsive, emotional, outrageous and "authentic", looser with truth, often people with "colourful" and controversial personal lives.

And Brexit? Trouble is that in BOTH cases, the reality is that a no deal option is a nightmare. For Brussels it will certainly plunge the EU into customs chaos, because whatever they say, the UK / EU border CANNOT be properly closed. The ROI / NI border will continue to be a soft one because neither ROI nor UK have political interest or the resources to close over 300 miles of countryside border. Such a nightmare for the EU could only be stopped by effectively throwing the ROI out of the free trade area, placing it on a similar trade basis as the UK - with customs controls between ROI and rest of the EU. 

But this would be highly controversial and itself trigger a massive political crisis within the EU itself. The unavoidable conclusion is that in the event of a so-called No Deal Exit in October, if that were to happen at all, the UK and EU will both continue to be highly motivated to shift to a trade agreement, which would probably be implemented step by step, sector by sector, week by week, with all kinds of uncertainties in the meantime.

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Future of District Heating and Energy / Power: Euroheat green tech keynote by Futurist Patrick Dixon

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District Heating, Cooling and Energy is growing rapidly globally as a strategy to improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, and save costs - and will reach $250bn a year of new investment by 2025.

More efficient than every home running their own gas boilers or air conditioning. Key is integration of many different energy sources including industrial waste heat, solar, wind, biomass and so on alongside gas etc.

Nations like China, Germany and Denmark have already invested heavily in this area. Comment before keynote at Euroheat conference in Nantes, by Futurist Keynote Speaker Patrick Dixon, Chairman Global Change Ltd

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Life for the next 100 years. New edition of my latest book The Future of Almost Everything with new chapter on life in the year 2120. Yes really. So how do you begin to forecast long term trends? I've been proven right countless times in last 30 years

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GREAT QUOTES AND USEFUL STATS FROM NEW BOOK OUT NOW - life for the next 100 years:  Latest edition of The Future of Almost Everything of Patrick Dixon's 16th book, published by Profile Books.  Take hold of your future or the future will take hold of you. Read FREE SAMPLE of the book.

“A brilliant guide to our future, which should be read by every decision-maker, packed with deep insights on a huge number of trends. Patrick Dixon has a great track record over many years in forecasting opportunities, risks and challenges that will affect us all.”  Sir Brian Souter - Chairman, Stagecoach Group Plc

"Absolutely brilliant.  I love this man's exhilarating thinking and writing.  Here are far-sighted insights into the tangible and intangible horizons of future change, underpinned by wisdom abut its ultimate driving force - human nature."  Nigel Nicholson, Professor of Organisational Behaviour, London Business School

"Every leader needs to keep ahead of major trends. Think radically and read this book to keep ahead of the future!"  Sinclair Beecham MBE, Co-Founder of Pret A Manger

"Insightful views about the global trends that could shape our future. A thought-provoking tome which should help businesses think differently about the markets of the future."  Linda Yueh, Adjunct Professor of Economics at London Business School, Visiting Professor of Economics at Peking University.

The Future of Almost Everything describes hundreds of key trends which will impact your business and personal life, and explains what it all means for our wider world. Practical insights for leaders and decision-makers in every industry, for government, non-profit organisations. Order The Future of Almost Everything from Amazon. Read FREE SAMPLE of the book.

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Life in the year 2100 with forecasts to 2120: why radically different to what most people expected back in 2050. Discover for yourself in New edition of The Future of Almost Everything.

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Tell us about the new edition of your book The Future of Almost Everything - in it is a chapter on life in 2120, how did you go about trying to forecast that far ahead? Most people would think it impossible.

It was an interesting process. When you are that far out, you are almost in the realms of science fiction, but remember that the greatest SciFi writers have often had extraordinary vision and correctly anticipated many things we take for granted today. I have been forecasting trends for over 30 years now, and the reason I'm still here, having worked with over 400 of the world's top 2000 companies, is because I've found that major trends tend to change in relatively predictable ways, while human nature is basically unchanged. And even technologies that change very rapidly are usually doing so in ways that are fairly obvious when you think about it. The broad direction of major global trends is usually very clear to experts in each industry or region, while we may debate about exact timing and likely impact....

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Watch my latest Futurist book edition being printed. Life for the next 100 years, hot off the press - what it means for you, family, business, world. Brand new chapter on life in the year 2120 - fascinating to "live" in 2100 and predict 20 years ahead

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"Future of Almost Everything" - 2nd edition of my Futurist book literally hot off the press at CPI - watch the entire manufacturing process of printing.

"I've written 16 books but never seen one printed. An amazing experience to see the whole process with my new book thundering off the press, one copy every seconds, and hold a copy in my hand, literally hot off the press, ink and glue setting.

"I'm really excited about this new edition - completely rewritten and updated with literally hundreds of new facts about your future.  Highlight for me was putting myself into the year 2100 and imagining myself as a Futurist in that year, looking back over the last couple of decades to 2080 and making forecasts to the year 2120 and far beyond."

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Future of Toys / Retail Trends. The more virtual and digital our world, the more parents will want to encourage physical, creative, learning toys like Lego. Report from Legoland - Retail keynote speaker Patrick Dixon

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Future of toys - and why many parents are going retro for their children - with booming sales of traditional toys. Lessons from history of Lego and reasons for Lego success. Retail trends, toy shops, child games, construction toys, early learning, child development. Future of educational toys. Consumer trends and impact on traditional retail. Video blog from Legoland, Billund, Denmark by Futurist Keynote Speaker Patrick Dixon

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How we will travel and why. Future of Transport Infrastructure - need for long term government policy on travel, transport, infrastructure, rail, roads, ports and airports - Transport Keynote Speaker Comment

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Comment on the future of transport infrastructure and government policy.  

Key trends in the travel, tourism, logistics and supply chain sectors.

How government transport policies are being overtaken by events.  

OECD Transport Forum comment after keynote on future transport issues.  

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Future of Retail, Shopping Malls, Mobile Customers, Home Delivery in Greece - Retail Keynote Speaker

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Future of retail: Futurist keynote speaker for Lambda Developments event in Athens on future of retail in Greece. How retail spending is changing. Future...

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