Re: The more I listen to the EU...
'msknight: "...the more I conclude that it is the EU itself that is trying to have its cake and eat it".
The UK is being punished with such ferocity as a deterrent to anyone else wanting to leave the European Project. The reality is that it is barely keeping afloat. A two-tier system run for the benefit of the few. The rest drifting in and out of perpetual bankruptcy being rescued by more "loans' from the IMF and the European Central Bank. I recall once, where a private bank owed lets say 4 billion to a country, once the bank came to restructure, the country ended up owing the bank 1 billion. They must have been laughing into their soup.