The EU bullying accusation seems at odds with the insistence that the EU need a deal as much as the UK does.
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The onus is on the UK to make an alternative plan. I would say it's specifically on the elected MPs who are making a big deal about saying the UK will have a trillion pounds in the bank in a few years etc etc to come up with it.
But they won't and for very good reason.
The EU wants the UK to stay, so their best tactic is probably to let the UK repeatedly punch itself in the face until it sees sense.
The EU bullying accusation seems at odds with the insistence that the EU need a deal as much as the UK does.
But there isn't any equivalence between the two parties. The UK is seeking to have an arrangement with 27 countries and it's up to the EU if they consider any proposed arrangement as unacceptable. The UK position all the way through has been baffling to many observers on the continent.
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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?
Unfortunately for the sake of the future reputation and electability of the Tory party no deal has to be spun to be someone else's fault. Remember when they tried to blame remainer's negativity for everything that went wrong? The public swallowed that whole and they will do the same with 'johnny foreigner is bullying us', it plays well to that little nationalist voice inside them.
Here is how it went
Tory MP's and newspapers : Chequers is shit
EU : Chequers is shit
Tory MP's and newspapers : Bullies!
That is the parallel universe we have been transported to.
Let's crash out , I'm up for the fight , not being bullied by a group that is trying to strong arm a country because it had the audacity to say were leaving , its got bugger all to do with our awkwardness, or a poor plan , its about frightening the death out of others who might try it.
Crickey the latest plan is a soft version of Brexit , not perfect in anyway and that's not good enough, what a bloody awful job this must be ,there is no positive outcome whichever way you turn.
I wish I had the answer, what's your plan , as I see it , there is no deal unless we are forced into another referendum and the decesion is reversed.
And theres a lot of folk still going to vote out.
If we can't come up with a deal that is acceptable to the EU surely they should offer a solution , unless it's a case they don't have one ?