Re: When to move abroad
"somehow the UK seems to expect the EU to give up everything they hold as their basic tenets in order to give us the best deal imaginable. It's not going to happen"
The EU state that a deal is not possible with any of their four freedoms being granted, unless the recipient accepts all four. This is despite them recently offering Canada a deal that picks this bullshit argument apart. They won't offer us a deal even close to what Canada got. So fuck them.
Germany is already in recession and Ireland needs an emergency cash injection the day after Brexit because they played their hand too strong and the EU threw them under the bus. They'll have to renege on this or cull tens of thousands of animals and decimate their farm industry because of that stupidity. Then there's the fact that the "backstop" violates the Good Friday agreement. So the EU simultaneously wants to uphold the Good Friday agreement, while also violating it by separating Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK. To further rub salt in the wound the EU states that Northern Ireland must have the backstop and keep regulatory alignment because it borders an EU nation...But then explain Monaco? Special privileges given to them because of France. It's bullshit and has been since the start. Negotiating MEPs two weeks back went on record to say that meeting prominent remainers, such as the Lib Dems, and Tony Blair was a mistake, as it meant the negotiations weren't taken seriously - as the EU was led to believe that offering a bad deal would instead keep us in the EU.
So there you have it. Theresa May gets some of the blame, but the EU are not our friends. Europeans are. The EU is nation building and playing dirty. Coincidentally the reason people like me wanted to leave in the first place. You won't see this stuff mentioned in the EU-supporting Guardian newspaper.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
