I hate to break it to you but Britain is "offering little" because they actually have more negotiating power.
I disagree, but that wasn't my point, anyway.
My point was that you cannot invite real interest-driven negotiations and then complain about red lines the other side draws in the sand.
It's either a real negotiation or an agreement between friends.
The latter would have been preferable, but all the hatred towards the EU side made that an immediate non-starter.
Right. I see what you're saying and I agree.
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> This is absurd. Given that you're a German you're obviously not following this very closely, so why on earth you're throwing uninformed comments around in public is inexplicable.
Could you please leave stuff like this out of comments? On Hacker News you just make your point without gratuitous antagonism.
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That's the big joke of Brexit. Boris Johnson fantasizing about dozens of trade deals ready to be signed when the UK exits. How many are there now? Zero.
Because the UK isn't in a position as strong as Brexiteers fantasized. Ostensibly they are all for negotiating deals in the national interest, but when the other side has interests, too, that's somehow unfair and they should "go whistle".
Brexiteers are looking for handouts, not real negotiations.