Experts and analysts have been busy looking for various "models" or "solutions" on which to base a firm new relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, once the British break away. Hope is being expressed that some kind of grand, overall bargain can be negotiated in Brussels in reasonable time and matters will then quickly settle down.
Unfortunately this may be a wish too far, leading only to disappointment. While many practical neighborhood issues need to be discussed and reformed, the day when everything is tied up neatly in a new and settled parcel may never come.
This is for a number of very basic reasons.