> This is not punishment, it is a direct consequence of respecting the UK's wishes. Exactly: I wish both brexiteers and EU citizens disappointed by the UK's de

> This is not punishment, it is a direct consequence of respecting the UK's wishes. Exactly: I wish both brexiteers and EU citizens disappointed by the UK's decision would actually start understanding this: losing EU's benefits is not punishment, is just a consequence of abandoning the EU. Getting access to the market is a benefit to a national economy which the EU has made contingent to an essential individual freedom - which is not necessarily beneficial to the economy - namely freedom of movement, because, well, not everything in life is economy. The UK wants one without the other, and this would first of all damage individual freedoms, and second put the economies which are committed to sustain freedom of movement eventually at a disadvantage. The EU can not allow such a state of a affairs.