EU Threatens to ‘Teach’ Britons the ‘Consequences’ of Brexit

[Right_in_Virginia]

EU Threatens to ‘Teach’ Britons the ‘Consequences’ of Brexit
Breitbart, Sep 4, 2017, Jack Montgomery

Brexit secretary David Davis has remained steadfast in the face of EU negotiator Michel Barnier’s threats to “teach the British people and others what leaving the EU means”.

The former French foreign minister claimed Brexit would be “an educational process” for Great Britain, warning: “There are extremely serious consequences of leaving the single market and it hasn’t been explained to the British people. We intend to teach people… what leaving the single market means.”

The remarks have been seized upon by EU loyalists in the media and political establishment, but Barnier’s opposite number David Davis has remained relaxed, explaining that the EU’s heated rhetoric is simply an attempt to bounce the UK into concessions on the 100 billion euro “ransom” it has been demanding as the price of an orderly Brexit.

“What [Barnier’s] concerned about is that he’s not getting the answer [he wants] on money and they’ve set this up to try and create pressure on us,” Davis said in an interview with Andrew Marr, reported by Euractiv.

“I’m not going to allow them to use that time pressure to force us to do x, y or z.”

He explained that “the point about the Europeans [is] they won’t talk about the future, they’ll only talk about so-called divorce proceedings.

“We are saying, ‘you’ve given us this enormous bill we’ll go through line by line’; we gave them a two-and-a-half hour presentation, they even complained about that.


More: http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/09/04/ddavis-stands-firm-eu-threatens-educate-british-brexit-consequences/

[Free Vulcan]

Gee, with that heavy handed bureaucratic attitude, I can't understand why they left?

[The_Reader_David]

Let's see. . . some consequences of Brexit spring readily to mind:

• Being able to freely negotiate trade deals with countries outside the EU as a sovereign nation.
• Being able to buy and sell powerful vacuum cleaners.
• Being able to import, buy and sell bananas with any degree of curvature.
• Being able to buy and sell over-the-counter medications in reasonable quantities in bottles, rather than tiny quantities in blister-packs.
• Gaining control of immigration to the United Kingdom.
• Parliament being able to pass laws without the European Commission or the European Court of Justice countermanding them.

It seems to me that main thing is to get an agreement with the Republic of Ireland to prevent a hard border with Northern Ireland, and as for the crowd in Brussels make clear that if the trade deal and other arrangements are not satisfactory, there won't be any payment of a "Brexit bill". 

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Talk about hardening the resolve of Britains who voted to leave, this will do the trick.