[Sephiroth]

Yesterday's leader in the Torygraph was pitched exactly right.

It was always likely that the trade talks with the EU would go down to the wire.
On the face of it, each side has every incentive to reach mutually beneficial terms, given the enormous amount of trade we do with each other, as well as our close diplomatic and military partnership. But the EU is not a simple trade bloc. It is an ideological project devoted to ever closer union. No country has ever left before, and Brussels has been determined from the start that no country will ever do so again.

Set against the EU's intransigence, the UK's position is not unreasonable: it wishes to regain its sovereignty and be treated like any other third country, while enjoying profitable trading relations with its European friends. In practice, this means UK control over its laws, borders and waters.

On this last point, however, the talks are stuck......

Any Remainer must, by corollary, be have had the wish to remain with the ideological EU project.

Although the latest news is that the two sides are returning to negotiations, the opposing forces described in the two paragraphs quoted above, now make agreement unlikely.

The EU wants to punish us and in response I say NO FISH FOR FRANCE.