Genuine question for leavers

[Elwood Blues]

Maybe you can explain it to me because I just don't see it.

Well for example their insistence that we couldn't even begin to discuss a trade deal until we had agreed how much we had to pay to leave.

I would have told them where to go at that stage.

[Eric Cartman]

Well for example their insistence that we couldn't even begin to discuss a trade deal until we had agreed how much we had to pay to leave.

I would have told them where to go at that stage.

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, anything more recent?