Dryce
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In a nutshell the UK is trying to brew a Brexit deal that means that everything stays exactly as it was before, less the bits we didn't like.
Sounds logical - though perhaps optmistic.
And it may (if you are not an EU establishment dogmatist) actually not be an unreasonable position.
What's the alternative offered by the EU? In reality that is basically as much stays exactly as before including the bits we aparently "don't like".
That also sounds quite logical - and maybe didactic rather than optimistic.
Personally? I think 2 years have been wasted and more time will be wasted. The UK should have had the guts to just start on the premise of no-deal. Set a time line. Set about implementing it. And then if the EU chose to respond constructively adapt - and if it didn't then we'd be ready.
Instead the opposite approach was taken. I think this was a huge mistake. But the political situation in the UK has meant that parliament and our elected represenattives haven't come to terms with what was actually needed - and evaded their responsibilities to *everybody* in the UK while thinking (believing) they were doing the right thing by dragging their feet and not facing up to reality.