?They? are not stringing us along, Keith. Cameron promised to trigger Article 50 the morning after the referendum. It took us nine nonths. Then May called an extremely ill-advised election which threw her party into total disarray, causing further delay. The Tories are split down the middle, squabbling among themselves, as we saw yesterday. What are the EU negotiators supposed to do about negotiating partners in that state? Quite rightly, they want to know what the financial settlement will be before they start talking turkey. You can?t get the decorators in before you?ve shown that you?ve actually bought the house. The financial, residential and border issues must be resolved before you start talking trade. That?s the right order of doing things. The confusion and disarray on OUR side is what?s holding things up. By the way, if we have legal obligations to pay the EU on leaving, we won?t get out of them just by walking away. They will get their money anyway and we?ll spend years in a costly, energy-sapping and hostile legal morass until they do. There is no stringing along going on. You should be looking at the feckless Tory Party and feeling extremely worried about the shambles they are getting us ever deeper into. I know I am and I know that it?s pointless looking for someone else to blame, as you constantly do. There?s a lot of hubris over the exit bill and a lot of fear of the Tory right going on. As I said before, that 60 billion is going to look like a drop in the ocean next to the damage that a no-deal brexit is going to do us. By the way, any trade ramifications after brexit will be disseminated among 27 other countries their end whereas we will bear the whole brunt our end. It?s nonsensical to claim that they need us more than we need them.