It's the opposite. The EU doesn't negotiate. That's why the talks have gone nowhere. It's actually the EU that wants talks to fail, as made obvious by the recen

It's the opposite. The EU doesn't negotiate. That's why the talks have gone nowhere. It's actually the EU that wants talks to fail, as made obvious by the recent switcheroo over a Canada-style deal and their refusal to consider any technological approach to the NI border. At the start, Barnier's "negotiation" consisted of a series of demands of the form "after leaving, why don't you continue to obey us in all respects, except without any representation and oh, keep paying us lots of money: the only alternative is a Canada style free trade deal". He proposed this knowing Theresa May felt a simple Canada style deal wasn't acceptable. BoJo replaced May and the first act after the leadership change was to go back to the EU and say - OK, we've thought about it and we'll take the Canada style deal. Guess what? Suddenly Barnier decided actually a Canada style deal wasn't on the table after all. This, after years of using it as an example of the loosest possible outcome. Now the EU invented a new rule, that this kind of loose trade deal is only available to countries geographically far away. Why? Because screw Brexit, that's why. There's literally no justification for this. As a Brit I've come to hold the EU in absolute contempt. It isn't interested in any kind of reasonable post-Brexit relationship. It's gambling everything on an attempt to crush British independence completely. At this point the EU's position is simply: stay in the EU or we won't work together on anything, anywhere at all. That's unacceptable. Time to go.