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.
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.