Rustledjimm wrote:Our government has made no decent plans, made no sensible decisions, given little good input into the negotiations. They have destablised the union in Northern Ireland, Scotland and even Wales to different degrees..
This is the big problem. Government hasn't done a single good thing about the whole brexit case and they're still pretending it isn't really happening. Which does not help their negotiation position in the slightest
And thanks to this, the EU decided that it would be able to demand Britain complies with all EU laws and rules but without any sort of input. This is not even demanded from Switzerland or Norway, who also do business with the EU and have separate agreements governing their access to the markets that are much less of a pain than anything proposed to the UK
They are very much putting pressure on the UK and trying to make the deal as bad as possible for them even to the point of possibly hurting their own economic interests just to set an example for anyone who may be considering to leave as well, and that is indeed abusive.
Imagine sharing your backyard with the neighbours. Slowly over time you get more agreements to share parts of the backyards and things go well. So then after a while, you've removed the fences and you're all using a big shared backyard. Then one guy decides he doesn't like that and wants to put his fence back and backs out of the shared garden.
The EU then declares that they will continue to have free access to the now fenced off garden using every single agreement made before this or there will be no deal whatsoever.
There is no way to negotiate with someone who has already said they won't negotiate. And if you bring the most inept failures in the field of negotiation for it then they won't change their stance either
And yet all of this could have been avoided if the politicians didn't just ignore large chunks of the population to try to force their own ideals, but of course that's common in every crisis or political problem