So......Brexit

No deal - has yet to be both on the table, and actually in a position to be implemented.

As a ■■■■■■■■ Brexiteer, I would have been happy with “no deal” at ANY point along the way, realizing that you cannot actually ever get permission to do a thing that the other side will not allow in a million years.

It’s like trying to negotiate with Hitler to “not bomb London” by offering payments FFS.

Has anyone heard of “Danegeld” around here?

The very concept should be a thousand years out-of-date in politics now. :unamused:

Today’s politics is more like “Poker” than “Fearmongering”.

If you don’t give a ■■■■ about the downside consequences of your move - then you stand a better chance of winning in any situation as a result, regardless of “what hand you hold.”

All we needed to do for Hard Brexit all along - was cease payments to Brussels. Forget about “laws being broken” - because the rest of the world will judge Britain rightly or wrongly for tearing up any and all EU treaties that held sway up to that point.
Germany considered it legal to invade Poland in 1939. Britian considered it not only illegal, but triggering a treaty between Poland and Britain at the time.
Britain chose to go to war over it, Hitler never declared war on Britain, contrary to popular belief.
Britain’s declaration of war against Germany was considered illegal by all those countries that chose to remain neutral in WWII, that could have come to our aid, but chose not to, unsure of the legal position in the bigger world picture. (Not including those nations like Spain that were unable to join the war, because there was already a civil war in play at the time…)

Back to this “draft deal”, already long described by Boris Johnson as being a “turd”…
What’s the £39billion for again?
Nothing at all. The EU have asked for it, nay demanded it - but we are under no legal obligation whatsoever to pay for it, or any other amount.
We ARE under legal obligation to keep on paying to Brussels - all the while we “remain” in the single market and customs union though, hence why we MUST ditch BOTH.

It’s like asking for a refund at the football match, before the game has started, but you are still occupying your bloody grandstand position at the ground!
Remove yourself from what you are paying for, put it “beyond reach to U-turn back again”, and then ask for a refund, because a proverbial season ticket at Norwich United happens to NOT be worth ten grand per season, and demand that refund accordingly… :stuck_out_tongue:

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The door is already open as a result of the referendum result.
Now it is time to “stop worrying about getting a detention” for escaping from Colditz FFS.

Getting out is FAR more important than “obeying any rules” not made by the UK in the first place. :bulb: