On 21/12/2020 11:39, Radio Man wrote:

But in case it's escaped your notice, we've spent years trying to
negotiate effectively retaining EU 'membership' for the bits of it we like.


Not remotely accurate the EU want us to sign up for more than we want to.

Can you explain what the difference is?



We want limited trade deals no free movement etc and not handing over
control of things.

The EU aren't accepting that. I suppose that they are just exercising
their sovereignty. Now, who'd have expected that, eh?