[Margaret Pilkington]

They just want to scare the hell out of the population.
I sometimes wonder if much of the press is in the pay of the EU.

Much of these scare stories have been formulated by civil servants( they have a vested interest in us staying in the EU...it means far less work for them)and no one knows what will happen.
Before the vote George Osborne predicted that the Uk would spiral into a financial decline.
It did not happen, the Bank of England were very pessimistic about financial markets and business....but these were all fabricated....and this is because NO ONE knows exactly what will happen.....other than our politicians will have to earn their corn(rather than being able to sit on their rumps and have rules and regulations formulated by the bureaucrats in Brussels).
They will have to knuckle down and do the work that government should be doing,

If there is a no deal scenario...what is termed a hard Brexit....I cannot see how TM can be seen to pull us back from the brink.....because there will be no brink.
We will be OUT.....and if it was felt this was the wrong decision, we would have to apply to join again....we would be forced to accept the single currency(this is a condition required by anyone joining the EU) I am also pretty sure that the bureaucrats would penalise the UK in as many ways as possible.
Michel Barnier has already said that he has no intention of negotiating, that the EU wants to punish the U.K.

I think there are other worries for the EU....the election of Anti EU populist governments in Italy(even though the EU have parachuted a technocrat in to ensure compliance with regulations) Slovakia is also in a similar position, Hungary too...and all because the EU does not accept democratic process.