Quote Originally Posted by jackal2 View Post
Given the likelihood that we will end up with broadly the same "No Deal" situation at the end of the negotiations that we would have had if we had put a "take it or leave it" hard Brexit plan on the table on day one, the only beneficiaries of this process are the extra layer of EU bureaucrats and British Civil Servants brought in to "negotiate" on the premise that a genuinely mutually acceptable agreement was ever possible.

For all the talking and political posturing, the same red lines and barriers that made a deal unlikely at the start are still making a deal unlikely now, but thanks to our weak and gutless political leaderships we've spent two years procrastinating and chasing rainbows. The EU can't bend to Britain's preferred terms because it would effectively spell the end of their little club, and the Conservative Government can't bend to the EU's wishes if they want to retain their coalition with the Unionists and avoid losing at least half their support base for a generation.

By now we should have been at least a year into the No Deal scenario which will probably happen anyway, but now May is talking about extending the impasse yet further. Sir Humphrey Appleby would have loved it.
I’ve read an unhealthy amount about Brexit over the last two years and that is truly a unique interpretation. Are you sniffing Diesel?