• 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.

  • 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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