It’s undeniably wearisome. However, I think the UK governments own disastrously bad negotiations is matched by the commission, who have been engaged in some very British divide and rule tactics.
Yes and no. The UK has never been warm on the EU, and the EU has been a disaster for fishermen and much of former British small business. It certainly IS true that much of what drove the leave vote is bad domestic policy, but it’s only half the story.
Not as much as you’d think.
I had hoped that the UK would pursue an EEA style deal along Norwegian and Swiss grounds. But it’s much too late for that.
I’m genuinely exhausted by the parliamentary cat herding.
Oh, I’m aware. I have always thought that the red lines would lead to no deal. I didn’t quite count on parliament being as spasmodically useless as they are currently.
What the UK needed was someone who understood that EEA membership was a compromise position that delivered much of what they wanted while not completely alienating the other 48%.
This is the worst the parliament has been since 1908, which also had a massive Irish question funnily enough.
God alone knows. My suspicion is that the SAS are going to have to abseil into10 Downing Street and physically remove her using flash bangs and bear mace.
While l am all for UK leaving, pols are probably trying to balance leaving without paying the extortion, rather separation fee and being able to trade with the EU under some non favored status. That said, UK is 5th largest economy in the world and should have plenty of options.
On the bright side, 600,000 new immigrants there in 2018. A shining workforce of easily integrated and highly educated folks, all desiring to wave the Union Jack for Queen and country. cough
Nope. The divorce bill is set. Even the Brexit demagogues accept that.
And that’s the problem. The Brexit was sold in part on the idea that signing a trade deal with the EU would be “very easy”. It seems that is not the case.
Actually not much. The EU is still a formidable trading bloc (Germany, France and italy are 4th, 7th and 9th world largest economies respectively) and UK loses the collective bargaining power that it had when negotiating as the part of the EU bloc. If independent trade deals signed so far with mostly smaller nations are an indication, the UK will celebrate when they get only slightly worse conditions that they had as part of the EU.
Ironically, leaving the EU will mean that immigrants from EU countries will be replaced mostly by non-European immigrants (aka non-white for people who obsess with such matters). Just look how the numbers diverged post Brexit vote:
