Quote Originally Posted by Eric Cartman View Post
Isn't that just a logical sequence of events in a situation like this? They aren't asking us to 'pay to leave', we have made budget commitments and have long term liabilities like pensions, clearly we have a choice whether to honour those or not. Based on that decision they then have a choice of whether they would like to work closely with us in the future.

We agreed to that structure for the negotiations many many moons ago, 8anything more recent?
If you were negotiating you'ld probably have told them

"£39 billion? Oh no we owe you more than that surely"

I'd hardly call last year many moons ago either!!