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Originally Posted by mrmistoffelees
As before, we chose collectively as a nation to leave, The EU can play hardball or be as inflexible as they wish. It's their club, we don't get to dictate the terms on our departure.
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We’re not trying to dictate the rules of their club. They paid scant regard to our views when we were in it, I don’t think anyone has any illusions that they are going to listen to us now.
The question is what kind of economic and security relations they want to have with one of the world’s principal powers (and no, you don’t have to be an empire-obsessed Colonel Blimp to acknowledge our position in the world), especially one they happen to share a common border with.
The problem, as I’ve said, is that they haven’t had to deal with such circumstances before. They are accustomed to dictating terms and thus far they have got away with it because the purists in Brussels have been in charge - apparatchiks who don’t answer to any electorate and won’t lose their jobs no matter how hard this hits any European economy. If we end up in a No Deal scenario there will be real-world consequences for real European voters, and inevitably European politicians will then begin to attend to their own interests.