EU referendum, brexit and the aftermath

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Oliver Schick

David Davis just makes me want to bang my head against the nearest wall.

He urged May to use the £39bn divorce settlement agreed last year as a bargaining chip to get a better deal than that proposed in the Chequers plan. He said: “We have a negotiating lever. We have 39bn of them, the £39bn contribution we are going to make in the withdrawal agreement. Once we have signed that away our negotiating leverage evaporates.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/19/david-davis-may-wont-get-chequers-plan-through-parliament-brexit

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Stonehedge in reply to @Oliver Schick

David Davis continues to fail to realise that £39bn is actually fuck all to the EU in the grand scheme of things.

It's a fifth of 1% of the EU GDP.

You could argue that £39bn is 20% of the annual EU budget but given that the budget is less than 1% of EU income, it really is just a paper shuffling exercise to swallow the loss.

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Oliver Schick in reply to @Stonehedge

Yes, but it's also that this is one of those seemingly unchangeable idées fixes he labours under, especially his utter cluelessness about how you negotiate.

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