The EU team do not agree that we should be talking about the favourable trade deal the UK wants before the substance of the settlement bill is agreed.

We need to know what we are paying for before agreeing how much to pay for it.

We ARE going to pay money. If we don't, three things will happen. We will get a lousy deal.

Paying more money is what will make it a bad deal.

There will be bad blood with our main trading partner (no-one is queuing up to replace them fast enough to rescue our failing economy once we're out).

No-one is queuing up to replace us as their main outside trading partner.

And we will be chased for payment, possibly through legal process, for years.

Fine. We will only have to pay what we are legally obliged to, eventually.

We are the one causing the trouble.

No. They are moving away from us. They are no longer just a trading block. They want political union and they can have it, but it is not for us.

there will be obstructive behaviour,
No change there then.

even sanctions.

Ha, ha.