Workingman wrote:Why can't you hardline (minority) ERG Brexit types ever be honest?
The only Brexit you will ever accept is the no-deal type.
Not true, I and all like me, would have accepted losing the referendum.
I would have been happy with a sensible deal.
It is the intransigence of the EU, by trying to create Hotel California and the incompetence of May by allowing them to, that I object to.
Parliament trying to invalidate the referendum, sabotage any kind of deal and trying to hold the country hostage by constantly perpetuating A50 until the country is so damaged that they accept virtually anything rather than leave the EU? Now that I am implacably opposed to.
Anything remotely sensible, which meets the decision of the referendum, I am all in favour of. But, right now, there is nothing even remotely sensible coming out of the EU. So let's get out and then, when they need to close the NI border and they can't call German cars "made in the EU" then let us see if they can be sensible then.
After all WE don't care if the border in NI porous or not. It is the EU getting all bent out of shape over that and from where I stand, that is their problem, not ours.
Whilst you and all those who do not want to leave the EU seem to think that No deal is only going to damage the UK, it is clearly evident that the EU will be far more impacted than the UK.
Why?
Because the UK contribution to the EU is virtually invisible. They, the ordinary citizens, cannot see it any more than ours can. Germany sells far more cars to America than they do to the UK. German cars wil be subject to even higher tariffs post Brexit when these cars are no longer classified as "made" in the EU, but "Assembled" in the EU.
So why would they not want to negotiate with the UK for a mutually sensible deal?
First because they fear the breakup of the EU more than they fear a recession in Germany.
Second, because attitudes like yours and those of our Parliament have given them hope that the UK will fold and take all the pain so that they don't need to do anything to solve the situation.
Understand it.
Own it.
Don't keep telling me that I will not accept anything but hard brexit, because that is not true. What I will not accept is what has been offered and remains the only offer.
That is not a negotiation, it Is duress.