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Re: Hmm

"So if this really matters they can resolve this quickly. Hence morons if they cant."

To back your assertion, you could name a few international trade treaties* that have been negotiated and signed in less than a year. Thank you in advance.

Regarding your next two points, "see above".

"So if this really matters then they can resolve this fairly easy as the problem is people making it a problem. Its purely a political issue."

No, they can't and no, it's not. See my point above and add that for more than two years the UK and the EU have been negotiating an exit treaty and reached an agreement that afterwards was repeatedly rejected by the UK Parliament. The cost of said negotiation -and I don't mean just the cost of paying the negotiators- has been stratospheric and includes things like economic uncertainty and coin devaluation.

The main reason for the UK rejecting the agreement is the "Backstop" that is the only logical solution to the NI issue. BoJo has repeatedly stated that the EU should come up with a solution to said problem, but he hasn't proposed a solution himself, because there isn't another solution. He could have requested also a working Perpetual Motion machine. This is just political posturing designed to pander to the dumbest of his supporters.

The EU can't allow an open border with countries that aren't in the EFTA, as this would effectively mean free access to the EFTA for any country the UK has commercial agreements with, something that would cause a huge economic harm to EFTA members.

"Art50 was submitted by May after Cameron bottled it and Boris has only..."

As I already pointed out to the AC above, a few months ago everybody was counting on a new extension and the EU was willing to give it. BJ shot himself in both feet by rejecting such extension, but wants to blame everybody else for his blunders. Quelle surprise!

Someone should explain to BJ that you shouldn't bluff when every other player in the table knows exactly what cards you've got.

* Note: excluding those treaties "negotiated" between an overwhelming superpower and its satellite states, e.g. the USSR and the rest of countries behind the Iron Wall, or the UK and countries of the Commonwealth more than a century ago. For some reason said treaties require little negotiation, if any. ;^)