The Brussels correspondent for Reuters is suggesting (HERE) the EU for us may need to be like the hotel California in the 1977 Eagles hit where "you can check out anytime, but you can never leave" and I think this is apt since we will still be connected in many ways after Brexit.
But he says some people, including Chris Grayling a senior leave campaigner and cabinet minister, are in denial about what Brexit means for the UK. He still thinks the EU will be desperate to give us an attractive trade deal. And Nigel Farage is quoted as telling the European parliament ,"If you were to cut off your noses to spite your faces and reject any idea of a sensible trade deal the consequences would be far worse for you than it would be for us."
No doubt he will be even more surprised by an article in today's Daily Telegraph by Boris Johnson widely quoted (BBC HERE) today that the government is not being positive about leaving the EU. He says the stock market is higher than before the vote (true) and that we are experiencing the last tremors of project fear, "perhaps the most thoroughgoing government attempt to manipulate public opinion since the run-up to the Iraq War." There won't be any positive news not because the government is hiding it but because there isn't going to be any.
The awful thing about these people is they might actually believe what they're saying.
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