Hi Motman
I couldn’t read the whole article unfortunately. It’s worth noting that is an opinion piece rather than fact. I see how the examples he gives could be seen as bullying. Might it also, if roles were reversed, be seen as using negotiating leverage?
We were told before we left how we could negotiate this amazing deal which the EU would fall over themselves to give us. Well it turns out we don’t hold all the cards after all, in fact, we are in a very weak negotiating position. As we have chosen to leave, can you blame the EU for looking after their own?
Perhaps they are responding in kind to our attempts at applying negotiating pressure - we have threatened to withhold anti-terrorist intelligence, and at one point we were using the 100s thousands of EU citizens who made the UK their home as pawns.
I think we can both agree that the UK has shown it can’t negotiate its way out of a paper bag. Who goes into a negotiation and tells the other party what your red lines are before you start? Madness.
What sort of deal do you think we are going to get from Trump and the USA when we are out on our arse? And why pursue free trade across the Atlantic anyway when we already have a trade deal with the largest single market in the world just across the channel?
I sense your minds made up, but be curious, and if you think there are vested interests, why not ask why Farage, Rhys Mogg etc are so keen to leave. You might also want to ask where Leave campaign and Brexit Party got their money from - there’s nothing “sovereign” about using money from Russia to subvert our democracy.
