talk the UK down
If you seriously believed that (you don't) you and the others could link hands and chant "everything's great" and the pound would rise, EU doctors and nurses would apply to work for the NHS, and industry would invest in Britain.
talk the UK down
Lets not confuse the old school negotiation strategy being played.
EU - We'll keep asking for more until your time is up and you have to give in.
UK - we are happy to walk and you'll have to start cancelling projects and taking pay cuts.
The EU wants a deal with us, partly to prevent us from getting better deals elsewhere.
Inflation - will push the pound up in value.
I’m sure you’ve both negotiated in your lives?
I really, really want that house at any price = i’m not interested unless you can get to a more realistic offer.
that's interesting, motorbiking. What do you think the EU wants?
It wants an orderly, well-managed exit. It knows this will take a lot of work and considerable time. it doesn't want a disorganised shambles. What do you imagine it could gain from spinning out decisions and agreements? Do you think it is pleased to see a UK government that can't even agree its own objectives? Where the Foreign Secretary is angling to depose the Prime Minister? Where the cabinet is riven by division? Where the government has, by its own folly, lost its majority and created a teetering coalition of chaos that is constantly on the brink of collapse?
It wants the UK to propose a workable solution to the Northern Ireland problem. The UK government is unable to do that.
It has four possible options for the post-Brexit relationship. The Brexiteers don't want any of the possible ones.
Do you reckon the Tory party have cottoned on? Why don't you drop TM a text?The EU, or at least Germany and France dont want an orderly, well managed Brexit, they want our cash
The EU has a lot to gain from spinning out agreements, it keeps a transition period going on and on so the UK keeps paying its subs.
The EU, or at least Germany and France dont want an orderly, well managed Brexit, they want our cash
oops looks like the crazy switch just flipped back on again. it was nice having a rational moment at least.
WTO rules if applied as above would actually prevent the EU from applying any tariff on UK goods. In reality it is testing and conformity to standards which enables trade barriers. There is nothing fundamentally preventing favourable agreements between parties effectively licensing them to self certify.