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Angela Merkal Says We Are Deluded!!
For thinking we can negotiate a trade deal while still negotiating our exit fee.
Who cares? Sort out the exit deal and get on with it.
In the mean time we get to the world negotiating table and sort a few deals out ourselves.
All we need to do (simplification I know but it works short term) is look at the books, see how much the (probably over valued) EU assets are worth, what we legitimately should contribute towards and then get our refund.
If they can't even get the books signed off for donkeys years they are unlikely to be 100% honest on value. They have to at least pretend to value somewhere. To be solvent they have to have assets so in all likelihood have over egged the asset worth.
Who cares? Sort out the exit deal and get on with it.
In the mean time we get to the world negotiating table and sort a few deals out ourselves.
All we need to do (simplification I know but it works short term) is look at the books, see how much the (probably over valued) EU assets are worth, what we legitimately should contribute towards and then get our refund.
If they can't even get the books signed off for donkeys years they are unlikely to be 100% honest on value. They have to at least pretend to value somewhere. To be solvent they have to have assets so in all likelihood have over egged the asset worth.
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The EU's opening gambit is the classic captor/hostage tactic (the hostage being the UK and the captor being the EU – as if that needed explaining...)
The captor of the victim always make ludicrous, impossible demands when cornered. In the classic captor/hostage scenario, the captor's first and foremost demand is a ludicrous amount of cash. Hence the EU demanding that the UK cough up around £50 billion. I don't believe for a minute that the EU actually expect the UK to come up with this astronomical amount but it demonstrates their bloody-mindedness and a level of arrogance and disdain for the UK just as much as some maniacal moron demanding millions of pounds not to murder his unwitting hostages.
It's obscenely insulting and they know it.
It's why they made it – to see our reaction to their perverse demand. The EU know that their super-national game is up. They are panicking. And in their panic they are demanding that their second biggest contributors (depending on the metric) pay an economy-busting penalty for leaving the club. This is being done as a warning to other member nations – leave the EU at your peril. The same bully-boy tactics employed by all disreputable gangsters the world over.
In actual fact, the EU bureaucrats are metaphorically defecating themselves and trying very hard to look nonplussed while doing so. The gaping financial hole left by the UK when we finally extricate ourselves from the the behemoth of the EU will (I hope) be large enough to precipitate the disintegration of this undemocratic, shambolic, socially destructive experiment which has been foisted upon the indigenous peoples of Europe without their consent.
The captor of the victim always make ludicrous, impossible demands when cornered. In the classic captor/hostage scenario, the captor's first and foremost demand is a ludicrous amount of cash. Hence the EU demanding that the UK cough up around £50 billion. I don't believe for a minute that the EU actually expect the UK to come up with this astronomical amount but it demonstrates their bloody-mindedness and a level of arrogance and disdain for the UK just as much as some maniacal moron demanding millions of pounds not to murder his unwitting hostages.
It's obscenely insulting and they know it.
It's why they made it – to see our reaction to their perverse demand. The EU know that their super-national game is up. They are panicking. And in their panic they are demanding that their second biggest contributors (depending on the metric) pay an economy-busting penalty for leaving the club. This is being done as a warning to other member nations – leave the EU at your peril. The same bully-boy tactics employed by all disreputable gangsters the world over.
In actual fact, the EU bureaucrats are metaphorically defecating themselves and trying very hard to look nonplussed while doing so. The gaping financial hole left by the UK when we finally extricate ourselves from the the behemoth of the EU will (I hope) be large enough to precipitate the disintegration of this undemocratic, shambolic, socially destructive experiment which has been foisted upon the indigenous peoples of Europe without their consent.
Baza
Thanks. I hate the EU (the bureaucratic monstrosity) but I love 'Europe' with a passion. I love the history, the architecture and more than anything, I love the people. The everyday people you meet when in Spain, Greece, France, Italy, etc. They're great.
I hate this idea that floats around the 'remain' camp that 'Brexiteers' are anti-European. We're not anti-European at all. We're anti-supernational government. The distinction is stark and yet some are unable (or unwilling) to see it.
Thanks. I hate the EU (the bureaucratic monstrosity) but I love 'Europe' with a passion. I love the history, the architecture and more than anything, I love the people. The everyday people you meet when in Spain, Greece, France, Italy, etc. They're great.
I hate this idea that floats around the 'remain' camp that 'Brexiteers' are anti-European. We're not anti-European at all. We're anti-supernational government. The distinction is stark and yet some are unable (or unwilling) to see it.
//I love 'Europe' with a passion. I love the history...//
"Xenophobes". "Little Englanders" etc. don't want to leave the EU because they hate the French etc. This Brexiteer wants to leave the EU out of respect for his own cultural legacy... and the same respect for the cultural legacies of of the French, the Germans and the Italians etc.
The EU is a project to destroy local identities in the interests of a self-perpetuating oligarchy.
"Xenophobes". "Little Englanders" etc. don't want to leave the EU because they hate the French etc. This Brexiteer wants to leave the EU out of respect for his own cultural legacy... and the same respect for the cultural legacies of of the French, the Germans and the Italians etc.
The EU is a project to destroy local identities in the interests of a self-perpetuating oligarchy.
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