I'm at a loss as to who is trying to fool who here?
The EU want (need, desire, expect) a backstop type arrangement or it's no deal.
However, if a no deal is what happens, where does that leave the EU and their trading complexities without the 'desired' backstop?
If the EU are capable of managing with no deal, then surely the backstop isn't such a big thing . . . apart from the ties it then binds us with
