As I’ve read elsewhere, using no deal as a negotiating tactic is like threatening your opponent with the splatter when you shoot your own testicles off.
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As I’ve read elsewhere, using no deal as a negotiating tactic is like threatening your opponent with the splatter when you shoot your own testicles off.
Not so sure about that when only about a third, are net contributors, it's obvious that France and Germany will bear the brunt. Not only in terms of financially propping up the EU but in the fact that they are the two biggest manufacturing nations that sell us their goods, double whammy for them.
I don't think the likes of Italy, Greece, Spain etc will cope better than us no matter how much Germany and France prop them up.
They are virtually bankrupt now and without our contribution they would be in dire straits.I agree a no deal benefits no side, especially after the way we have handled it.