Well if the EU want to shoot themselves and us in the foot, it's up to them; their negotiating red lines leaves us in a position of having hardly left, we'll still have to follow their rules [new and old] etc...
I am expecting some sort of UK compromise simply because of the establishment are mainly remainers, and they get what they want, we will have the appearance of brexit though.
So hang on a minute, is No Deal Brexit something to fear or not? Because on the one hand you're saying that the EU has the ability to 'shoot us in the foot' but on the other hand No Deal is nothing to be fearful of because we're better off with a clean break and can get on with being buccaneering Britain again. (And indeed Mr Slot asserts that's actively what he voted for, to be 'shot in the foot', apparently.)
The EU's negotiating 'red lines' are simply the rules of the club, I don't know how many times I can possibly explain this, or rearrange the words into a different order, but the rules have always been crystal clear, and were clearly explained many years ago, there's the well known graphic that shows how the UK basically ruled everything out with its actual red lines, that under EU rules left it getting a Canada
STYLE deal, (not the exact same deal as Canada, as already covered).
I mean, wasn't one of the main points of Brexit to ESCAPE FROM THE RULES OF BRUSSELS? So we can hardly call foul when we leave the EU and then, as a third country, the EU erm, apply those rules to us based on what level of level of access we wish to retain. (Which we absolutely are doing, witness the issues around hauliers' rights that cropped up last week.)
This all comes full circle back to how Brexit works as a slogan, but it doesn't work in reality, and the second any sort of scrutiny is applied to it, the only comeback from Leavers is that it's still the EU's fault.
On that point, I note how you're already setting up the 'betrayal narrative' so that if the UK should compromise to get a deal, then Brexit will have been betrayed, because it's not 'proper' Brexit.
But then, what is 'proper' Brexit, the one that shoots us in the foot? (Your words, not mine!
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