Only thing is Shaw - the UK negotiators have been ready, willing and able to discuss all aspects of us leaving the EU from day one. The EU negotiators have not. It has been on their insistence that the UK MUST agree to terms dictated by them on what payment we MUST make, a payment I might add that they have refused to justify. We MUST agree to terms dictated by them with regard to rights of EU citizens residing in the UK. We MUST agree that the ECJ has precedence over our own sovereign parliament and the UK Courts of Justice. We MUST agree to conditions as yet to be determined by THEM on the nature of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

The above Shaw (And DMcG who talks to lawyers) is not a negotiation by any stretch of the imagination.

We are willing to discuss, they seem only interested in dictating to us. On that tack they will not get very far, they don't deserve to. For some strange reason they seem to think that they can pressure the UK into a deal that would be to the benefit of the EU but unacceptable to the British people and against the UK national interests, they should think again. Come the 29th March, 2019 the UK will leave the EU and if no deal has been discussed, mutually agreed and settled both in Brussels and in Westminster then there never will be a deal and the EU will be compelled to trade with the UK in accordance with WTO rules. If it does not do this then every member state within the EU may find itself outside of the WTO.