UK to leave EU

[Pat Mustard]

What makes you think the EU won't act upon the incentive to make it as painful as possible?

I think the EU and the UK could survive without any agreement, but let's be honest, they aren't going to make it hard for us and we aren't going to make it hard for them

We've spent the last forty years making it easy for the UK, giving them opt outs and subventions over and above those available to any member, and look what happened as a result. At this stage the UK without a friend left within the EU is going to get a kicking.

Oh, and of your 27 countries, exactly none have expressed a desire to agree a deal with the UK before the UK concludes a deal with the EU, and also exactly none of them have expressed a desire to give the UK a deal better than the one it has now. And you can drop every single one of the EU listed countries there, because they will not be able to do separate deals with the UK without themselves first leaving the EU, and countries like India have already dictated their terms to the UK along the lines of "no increased access for your businesses into our country, lots of increased access for our businesses into the UK".