"michael adams" wrote in message
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"Bill" wrote in message
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In message , michael
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Basically until the UK agrees to pay them what they think they're due,
regardless of whether anyone else thinks this is fair or not, they're not
going to negotiate on anything else.

This was the fait accompli which Davis was presented with on Monday
morning.

If you read the article some of the sums being mentioned as compo are
simply staggering i.e 100 billion

It's maybe no wonder a lot of people are trying to play this down.

So the EU position is "Pay us 100 billion or you have to stay in our
cartel (club or whatever)"?

Any sane person would treat this as a wind up or insanity.

Hardly. This has been on the cards, since before the referendum.

Nope.

According to them, us leaving will cost them 10 billion
per annum. Which without looking it up, may well correspond with the
figure many were suggesring as the amount the UK would save per year, by
leaving.

And the EU gets to like that or lump it.

They have no capacity what so ever to say that Britain
doesn’t get to leave unless they continue to pay that.

Then they're further claiming that its going to take them a good 10 years
to get over the initial shock.

That’s likely correct, and they get to like that or lump that too.

Basically if they hired a good divorce lawyer to argue
their case they might even get it up to 30 years.

With the UK paying their costs, on top.

Leaving the EU doesn’t work like that. Once Article 50
has been triggered, and it has already, there are 2 years
for negotiations and even no agreement is reached in that
time Britain leaves and the EU gets to like that or lump it.

Nothing even remotely like a divorce, legally.

There isnt even a decision on who
gets what assets wise with Article 50.