Joining a Club

[northernladuk]

Ah, that's another story, now you blame the PIGS.
Do you have anything more to blame to feel yourself better?

I'm sure he feels himself well enough. He's had plenty of practice

[vetran]

So you want to oppose legal cartel rather than join it?

No I would like you Bremainers to stop suggesting it has a physical value on its own.

You join a golf club to get access to the Golf Course not to put up with the other members looking down their nose at you.

The EU didn't invest in a Golf course. We don't have to rent it. If the "Club" ceases to exist there will be nothing of value left.

We formed a cartel where we fixed prices & excluded other traders.

We want to leave it so the Cartel say "we will make you suffer just in case someone else wants to leave the Cartel" its all a bit sad.

[OwlHoot]

This is the same as counting with the egg in chicken's ass ...

I'm guessing that is a literal translation of "counting your chickens before they're hatched"

[d000hg]

So, a snowflake wants to leave a club, but maintain many of the benefits of being in it, and is now blaming the club for them saying "no, you can't have those benefits any more".
Poor ickle snowflake.
You can't blame the club. Part of choosing to leave it is about accepting responsibility for your actions and the repercussions of those actions.

If leaving has "repercussions" that suggests they're using fear of said repercussions to stop you leaving. Losing membership benefits is one thing, going out of your way to make it difficult for the leaving member to send a message to anyone else who was wondering if membership is worth it is another.

I said months I ago I didn't think the EU would do that, hurt themselves just to hurt the UK more, because it's childish. At the moment I don't think they are punishing us but to say such a thing is not plausible is foolish. You can end a relationship respectfully or acrimoniously... it's in neither spouse's best interest to take the latter route in a divorce but it frequently happens.

[Bee]

I'm guessing that is a literal translation of "counting your chickens before they're hatched"

It's not a literal translation, we say "chicken's ass" on purpose, but yes means the same thing.

Thanks

[Bee]

I'm sure he feels himself well enough. He's had plenty of practice

Probably yes, probably not.
It's common that some parties of some countries blame EU for their fails instead of doing their own reforms to solve their problems.