Walk away, pay them nothing. It’s retarded to ask the EU to outline the conditions under which they will let you leave.
Why make any kind of deal?
Tell them to EFF OFF and go your separate ways.
What would happen if Britain just simply quit? Walked away. Cut all ties to the EU? The people of GB voted (wisely - one of the few good decisions in a long time) to leave the bloodsucking EU - get it done. What, will the cheese-eating, surrender-monkey French go to war?
Funny - US Revolutionary War General and First President, George Washington (I believe it was) warned of ties that bind... GB made a deal with the Devil - and the Devil doesn’t give up his contracts easily.
A well timed, well modulated statement designed to maximize the dismay and stresses on the May government.
Nothing more.
You’ve got to let them save face. Bragging before the signing is poor form.
The deal probably sucked anyway. May hated it, and its hard to believe she was fighting hard for England’s point of view.
To our English cousins........give the continent the two finger salute. Spain Failed. Napoleonic France Failed. Nazi Germany failed. Why should you surrender to the continent now? That’s what this is....they are trying to force your surrender. They have a trade surplus with you. They will be hurt by a hard Brexit far more than you will. They’re just grandstanding to try to cow any others thinking about not going along with the diktats of Brussels. Hang tough for a while and they’ll be forced to come to you for a deal and be a lot more reasonable.
Catchy phrasing.
Overall, European leaders seem happy with the agreement that’s on the table and EU negotiators believe that this deal is the best possible arrangement.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/brexit-what-the-eu-is-saying-about-the-uk-political-turmoil.html
May said that her deal would give us back “control of our money, laws and borders”, while protecting business and jobs. None of that is true. Nowhere is there any evidence to be found in the lengthy withdrawal deal.
For the foreseeable, we are in a customs union we cannot leave without EU permission and our borders are open to EU citizens. We are paying £39bn, business has no certainty for future investment and as for jobs – well, let’s just cross our fingers and hope. May pretends that some distant sunlit trade deal, hazily sketched, will one day emerge from the political declaration that accompanies the deal. Will it be in two years, 10 years, sometime, never? No one knows.
All the devilish dilemmas remain. All the impossibilities are as impossible as they were on referendum day – but now they are solemnly written down on paper.