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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
So encouraging such parties by providing concessions to the UK as an example of what happens wouldn't be suicidal?
Okay.
Juncker just made very clear: we are leaving the EU, there will be no renegotiation. We are expected to make our proposals for co-operation with the EU as a 'third country', with the assumption that those proposals will be in the interests of both.
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We are indeed leaving and the EU apparatus will certainly not want to make it look easy.
But Angela Merkel is the power behind all this, and she needs votes from Germany's manufacturing workers if she is to stave off an attack from AfD next year.
The EU is very good at making things up as they go along, in response to inconvenient referendum results. I didn't vote Leave in the expectation of a sweet deal, so I'm content with whatever we get, however I'll be surprised if, when the ink dries, it will turn out that we have been thoroughly shafted.