I don't agree with that. Why exactly are we going along with 50?

In fact I prefer a no deal to this.

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

It'll be 50 spread over several years and the trade agreements and, if done fairly and successfully, should dwarf this figure over many many years compared to no deal, which is why we voted leave. For the longer term. Well a lot of us did.

It's not this I'm concerned about but I am that it's decided and filed away without being part of other aspects of our future relationships. That's how the real world works. It's like we're the school children being allowed a short say and to then shut up and accept whatever, regardless of fairness.

If they continue to try and stitch us up then I might agree to walk away.

COYP

It is paying back our commitments but those commitments aren’t clear and transparent, the best analogy I’ve heard is that we have all been out to dinner and we know we have had the steak dinner which are prepared to pay for , we also happy to pay for the wine but we are not sure how much of the wine we have had and in any case we wanted a nice bottle of wine while the Romania’s only wanted the house wine. We also promised to chip in a bit extra for the meal next month because we know some of the others guest are a little bit skint and they have a mate who can do our garden for us but so now a few others are going to have to stump up a bit extra.
It’s also a bit irrelevant for remainers, of which I’m one, to say that if people had known the cost of leaving would they have voted out, well, they are our commitments we would have been paying them and would continue to be paying them into the future had we remained.

One supporter of hacking argued that without it "you will do away with the courage and pluck of the game, and I will be bound to bring over a lot of Frenchmen who would beat you with a week's practice -Blackheath secretary at first meeting of the F.A

We know what we're going to be negotiating so we're not as in the dark as you think, and no, it's nothing like a general election.

Paul Mason was in favour of leave but under a labour government. You've just done okay because of the EU privileges and think it applies to 60 million of us too. You might live to see your offspring want to return to Britain. Remember me saying it to you now.

COYP

Maybe you've been swayed by Russian bots.

In other news Eurozone confidence at 17 year high and growth in Q4 now expected to beat initial forecasts.

UK very much looking like the sick man of Europe.

Austerity and Brexit mishandling combining to erode living standards and leave us trailing in the dust of the world economy. Sad.

Nothing bitter here at all. I'm just sad to see many of my friends not knowing what's going to happen to their country and the precarious future of their teenage children. The only 'bitter' people seem to be those who voted to leave and now can't stomach the reality. The honeymoon period of the vote to leave is long gone.

As regards to 'buggering off', well I took advantage of being a European citizen, a privilege everyone in the UK still has.

With regards to the country I now live in, who knows what it will be like in 5-10 years time. We'll be long gone by then. That's the beauty of the EU, you can move around at will and pick where you want to live. Get bored or want a change, move again. We've done it with a young family, so that old chestnut isn't any excuse at all. It all depends if you've got a closed mind or an open mind.