Banksy’s view on Brexit: the EU wants it to be clear that the UK is responsible for a disorderly exit

EU governments have crossed a psychological threshold and are preparing for a disorderly Brexit.

They are testing how to handle British requests for market access in the event of a no-deal — an outcome once viewed as a far-fetched nightmare. But what used to be “a possibility” is seen by some EU diplomats as the most probable outcome of the Brexit debacle.

“A no-deal scenario on April 12 is now a likely scenario,” a European Commission spokesman said. “The EU is fully prepared for a no-deal scenario at midnight on April 12.”

Several senior EU envoys gave even more pessimistic assessments in private, citing Britain’s parliamentary confusion as evidence the UK was likely to tumble out of the bloc. “It’s an accelerating political meltdown in