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Nonsense. They have agreed a trade deal with Canada recently. You would have thought that 45 years of contribution and £40 billion they have no legal right to might count for something and would mean we could have a reasonable end position. So it is a punishment not to act with us in a reasonable fashion.
We have made them a good offer. If they want to deal with a brexiteer instead they should keep going the way they are because I can assure you they will risk kissing goodbye to the £40billion.
This is entirely empty and belies your knowledge of the process. Tere is no evidence of punishment because they aren't punishing us.
They have said since the beginning that we can have off-the-peg options such as Canada, Switzerland and Norway, and have these in place quite quickly. Canada would not be a good outcome for us. The £40bn is existing commitments to which we have already signed contracts. If we renege on that we will not be trusted by them or anybody else. Funding pouring into Britain would stop instantly. Nearly 10% of that money comes in for scientific research - if that ends we lose that straight away plus all the jobs and associated benefits that would relocate plus all the return on innovation from the impact of that research. Job losses and economic catastrophe. Even DD understood that quite early on.