Originally Posted by
Not_a_boffin
It is interesting to note that the barriers to frictionless trade that are being blamed for the tsunami of briefings about pulling out from the UK this week appear to originate primarily in Brussels. There is little discernible reason to impose tariffs and extra customs demands on goods and services, other than at the behest of the EU Commission. Strangely this appears to be exclusively the fault of the UK for having the temerity to express a desire to leave the EU construct. A situation resulting in what has been described as a punishment beating - or at very least demanding money with menaces, which only reinforces the decision in this reluctant leaver to vote leave in the first place.
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Pour encourager les autres as the French would have it - and I am/was a reluctant remainer