The EU wants the money they think we should be paying. If you have good reason to dispute the amount they're asking for, let's be having it, preferably without the little Englander hubris.

And it's perfectly right that they want a financial settlement resolved before discussing trade arrangements. Why would any rational negotiator want those two issues enmeshed? The trouble with people like you and Teribus is that you still seem to think that England rules the bloody waves. Well you have a very rude shock awaiting.