You Can't Always Get What You Want...

[Old Greg]

Are you happy to sign all our liberties over to a central European superpower?

Strawman of the day - congrats.

[CretinWatcher]

Which part of 'The EU are planning to punish a country for exercising democracy' are you struggling with?

You dense fookin tw@s

Are you happy to sign all our liberties over to a central European superpower?

Which part of "lets walk away then" are YOU struggling with?
Thick fookwit.

[original PM]

Strawman of the day - congrats.

Indeed...

you do not seem to be refuting the first point about the EU punishing a country for exercising democracy though...

or is that just an inconvenient truth?

[scooterscot]

Which part of 'The EU are planning to punish a country for exercising democracy' are you struggling with?

You dense fookin tw@s

Are you happy to sign all our liberties over to a central European superpower?

They're not punishing, they're protecting their interests. The remaining 27 states. Do you honestly expect them to do vice versa?

[BlueSharp]

Indeed...

you do not seem to be refuting the first point about the EU punishing a country for exercising democracy though...

or is that just an inconvenient truth?

No they are doing what we are doing looking after our own interests'. There is no punishment just thiko's looking to blame others for their own failures.

What part of below is punishing us?

Hey Mr E.U. I want access to the free market but don't won't to contribute financially or allow those funny foreigners in.

Mr E.U. No, you can have the same rules as everyone else.

[Old Greg]

Indeed...

you do not seem to be refuting the first point about the EU punishing a country for exercising democracy though...

or is that just an inconvenient truth?

The article uses the word punish once.

First of all, it will face the E.U.’s unanimity requirements. All the E.U. member states will have to agree to any deal before it goes forward. This means that just one member state can block the agreement. Before the referendum, Britain could count on the help of other governments that were sympathetic to it. Now, any deal will effectively be shaped by the single government most unsympathetic to Britain’s case, and most eager to punish it, since all other member states will need that state’s assent. If one or several remaining member states want to make the establishment of an association agreement very costly for Britain, the British will find themselves in a very weak bargaining position.

Nowhere does it reference "the EU punishing" (to use your words) the UK, just one country. So the EU may take a variety of positions, but if one country for whatever reason (e.g. Spain looking for joint sovereignty over Gibraltar) takes a view that it (the country, not the EU) wants to punish the UK, then the assent of that country to any favourable deal is a barrier.

It's like an easy 'O' Level English comprehension, isn't it?

[Old Greg]

No they are doing what we are doing looking after our own interests'. There is no punishment just thiko's looking to blame others for their own failures.

What part of below is punishing us?

Hey Mr E.U. I want access to the free market but don't won't to contribute financially or allow those funny foreigners in.

Mr E.U. No, you can have the same rules as everyone else.

But that's not fair, we're being punished!