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Originally Posted by denphone

So HMG is not being difficult in the negotiations either? as yes the EU are being difficult but they are not the ones who are pulling out of the EU as its up to Theresa May and her government at the end of the day to come to a agreement with the EU and thus so far in two years they have agreed basically diddly squat and my hunch is there will be another delay come next March l suspect.

You are an apologist for the EU. Disregarding that TM didn't tell the EU to get stuffed right back then (Varoufakis warned her), there was diddly squat that could be achieved except on the EU's terms. The UK were not difficult; we wanted to start from the basis of alignment so that the principles of a trade agreement could be made into a political statement right up front. But the EU wanted to make it difficult for us in a Soviet style show of power to other dissident countries. They were deliberately difficult.