Another tweet to set on repeat:
Yes, the EU is absolutely unreasonable to third countries. So, what is the UK, now one of them, going to do about it?
The default answer seems to be, whinge. Or for the pro-EU folk to say we told you leaving was a bad idea.
Yes, the EU is absolutely unreasonable to third countries. So, what is the UK, now one of them, going to do about it?
The default answer seems to be, whinge. Or for the pro-EU folk to say we told you leaving was a bad idea.
It mostly seems to be myself and @APHClarkson pointing out the unreasonableness of the EU to widespread UK disdain, given for some reason a belief international relations should be 'fair' or biased towards the UK or something. It isn't.
So really best to imagine that we're surrounded by terrible neighbours, who formed a club which we found so unbearable we had to leave it, but we can't move house. Yes the other side of town looks nice, but we can't stay there. So what do you do?
And for the pro-EU folk, yes the EU is that bad to third countries, ask any that have to negotiate with them. Nobody enjoyed the experience. Apparently dealing with the UK in the 19th century was like that. Power politics and all that.
If the EU was going to be nice, perhaps the UK government's strategy of threats would work. It isn't, so it doesn't. The real problem is we therefore have no realistic approach to our most important relationship. Comfort eating tabloid headlines as a substitute.
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