The whole thing was guaranteed clusterf****
As soon as the EU said no negotiations before article 50 is triggered. That was a ludicrous decision for both the British and the rest of Europe. What should have happened, given rational governments seeking the best interests of all their people in the circumstances, would have been for all parties to accept the referendum result and immediately start negotiating in good faith an agreement that would constitute the best or at least least worst relationship between the countries going forward. Once that was agreed article 50 would have been triggered and there would then be a properly planned two year transition period. It seems pretty likely that is what was in the minds of the treaty drafters.
Now clearly almost none of that happened, with the results we see, and no party comes out of it at all well. Its ironic that the behaviour of the EU negotiators, apparently not in the least bothered about the state of their own noses just so long as they could punch the Brits in the face, is a strong new argument that leaving the EU is a good decision, whilst the behaviour of our own politicians, apparently incapable of running a whelk stall without EU bureaucrats restricting their powers of idiocy, is probably the strongest new argument for staying in.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
