Totally agree Blake,
The CAA have made it clear for the last two years what would happen in the event of a no deal and they wanted to reman in EASA as there was no particular area in which they felt the need to diverge. Leaving EASA was pointless as far as they were concerned, particularly as they were heavily involved in creating it. In the end we effectively got no deal for licencing and the bare bones air service package to keep the aircraft flying. At the time two years or so ago when the CAA published the "unlikely but we have to prepare for it plan" liar Johnson was running into an election supposedly with an oven deal ready promising everyone that the chances of no deal was a million to one. Amazingly, people fell for these blatant lies assumed everything would work out and gave the liar an eighty seat majority. It was always going to be no deal from then on. Shapps was well aware of the consequences but in order to save his ministerial skin, he said and did nothing. The little Englanders in the ERG got their way and we all suffer just because EASA contains the E word. The only person to blame here is liar Johnson.