Re: The EU will categorically, never ever re-open negotiations on the withdrawal agreement...
Plus, they're likely tired of May-be Yes, May-be No and that's coming from a politician, who, while she didn't the greatest job, at least tried her best with the weak hand she was holding.
May did an excellent job of trying to make Brexit impossible - exactly as you would expect from a Remainer and establishment stooge. This was clear when she appointed Brexiteers to the position of Brexit Secretary then proceeded to freeze them out of the negotiations, preferring instead to rely upon the arch-Remaniac Olly Robbins and his cronies in the Remainer civil service.
To answer your question, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue/sig.html Maybe the UK will have a general election or new referendum and come to its sense, so, within limits, there's no huge downside to allowing you time to think things through. Really doubt it's about fulfilling your lil fantasies.
Ah the old, giving us time to come to our senses canard! We voted to leave. It's called democracy - that thing that's absolutely antithetical to the EU.
https://pics.me.me/nothing-undemocratic-at-all-about-the-eu-folks-fig-3-2891606.png
The reason the EU never takes no for an answer and will try its absolute best to prevent the UK from leaving is two fold.
Firstly, they need our money. Remember only 10 of the 28 member states are net contributors to the budget. It's difficult enough for the EU to keep the likes of Hungary and Poland onside as it is. How do you think they'll react when the EU turns round and says "oh sorry guys, you're going to be taking a big pay cut but we still expect x, y and z from you!"
Secondly, the idea of a big fish getting away and establishing an alternative, independent path into the future will pose an existential threat to the entire concept of the EU. The federalist approach of ever closer union has failed and instead of acknowledging this, the EU can only propose more of the same. So far they have managed to keep up the pretence of solidarity but all of the simmering tensions lying close to the surface in multiple nations (gilets jaunes, populist movements in Italy and Spain, the broken generation in Greece etc.) will flare up once again when we enter the next financial crisis.
Hopefully, by that stage the nightmarish, neoliberal EU will well and truly be banished to the pages of history!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
