• I really don't think it's posturing either. They're trying to get shut of UK fast because uncertainty is damaging for Europe's economy. The sooner the can make that uncertainly a problem for Britain alone, the sooner they can get on with certainty.
    They need to get the Article 50 button pushed, refusing informal negotiations prior to that is a decent way to get it pushed.

  • I really don't think it's posturing either. They're trying to get shut of UK fast because uncertainty is damaging for Europe's economy. The sooner the can make that uncertainly a problem for Britain alone, the sooner they can get on with certainty.
    They need to get the Article 50 button pushed, refusing informal negotiations prior to that is a decent way to get it pushed.

    I disagreed with you earlier @Fintan, but this is bang on.
    For those who lament the impact this has had to their white collar careers, consider how bad this uncertainty is for the unemployed 20-somethings all over Europe.
    The decent thing to do would be to decide in or out ASAP, not to get clever with endless reruns of the referendum and every little interest group expecting to have their say in the upcoming negotiations.

    If UK goes out, aim for an amicable divorce by way of swiftly shifting to the EEA then ask nicely to re-enter in about 5 - 10 years – when the codgers who voted out have died off.

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