The EU, Suicidal Steamroller?

So... way back when (it seems decades ago now) Divid Cameron went to the EU in an attempt to avoid the referendum.

He requested concessions from the EU on immigration and other things.

They gave him nothing.

That triggered the referendum and the public decided to leave the EU.

Our politicians duly trooped back to the EU to "negotiate" the terms of exiting the EU. Remember this is not where we stand after we leave the EU. This is just the deal to administer the exit process between March next year and whenever agreements are made and talks concluded.

The EU gave away no concessions, but the UK government conceded every single red line.

Such was the deal that was shown to the cabinet yesterday.

The chances are very high that as of March 29th 2019 we will exit the EU without any kind of agreement to easee the transition from in to out, without a process to export to the EU and for the EU to import to us. The borders will be closed.

German car manufacturing will catch a cold.

In it's zealousness for the grand project, the EU has rejected not only our requests, but has also failed to understand the reasons for our dispute with them. They fail to compute that the EU steamroller is doing wrong, or that anyone can criticise the direction of said steamroller.

Over the decades, repeated Prime Ministers have tried to reason with the EU secretariat in an effort to get it to work more democratically and fairer. These have ALL failed.

David Cameron's entreaties to the EU back in 2015 were the last gasp saloon for the project with UK membership. It failed spectacularly to understand our viewpoint despite the decades of negotiations.

Now the EU has again failed to understand the UK sentiment and sense of fair play in these one-sided negotiations and quite rightly MPs and the population at large have a problem with the deal put forward this week. It not only ties us to the EU, but also fails to provide a point where we will leave. The EU have learned from article 50 and this time have not allowed any exit mechanism as part of the deal.  We cannot tell the EU we are leaving, we have to ask permission. Just on that point alone the deal is unaccceptable.

It's quite clear that the EU had no intention of negotiating a deal that is mutually beneficial, instead they decide to punish the UK, provide the worst deal available and also lock us unto some limbo state we can never escape.

In effect, the EU has committed suicide. All those German car workers, the wine merchants of France will not forget that the EU put the political project above jobs.