If you join a football club, and pay fees, and the club purchases a ball with some of those fees, and then you leave the club, the club owns the ball. Surely.
True enough, but the irony here is that the EU is still hoping that despite not being a member of the club we'll still turn up and play in defence for them in the NATO League (namely covering the GIUK Gap and NUK Gap to the North Sea), but doesn't consider us trustworthy enough to actually handle their ball in the process, with the result that we might end up watching the Russian Northern Fleet sail down the North Sea to Germany ball sail into the goal because we weren't allowed to touch it (but we could have blocked it).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
