It's funny. I've had a bit of time on my hand. And look what I found:
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-cont...6U/TXT&from=EN
Says on page 7:
That bold bit there? That's why these four freedoms are inseparable. No shortcuts. No changing the treaties just to accomodate you.
You know who signed that?
So, now we've established that not only is it legal for the EU to maintain that red line, it has also been signed and ratified by the UK. What you're doing now is asking the EU to break its own treaties. Since the EU can't allow that to happen, they propose other solutions. Those are unilaterally declared illegal by you. Ok, great. Now, the ball is actually in your court, however. Every solution the EU can present within its legal framework has so far been rejected by the UK.
This isn't threats. This isn't being aggressive. Quite the opposite. The only ones being aggressive is the Brexit movement. The EU has always pointed out the red lines, has maintained them throughout the negotiations. That the UK cannot reconsile two opposing treaties is not the EU's fault. Nobody in the EU forced the UK to quit. Everybody in the EU tried to talk sense into them. It did not work. You made the bed. Now you lie in it.
See, the funny thing is... from the beginning, you haven't supported a hard Brexit. You've supported the pussy version of it, where you get what you want to get and then ditch what you don't like. I remember you very well from a year ago, Dribs. Oh, how you told us the UK would dictate these negotiations. They didn't. How the UK would get all it wanted. They didn't. How the UK would force the EU to its knees. That never happened. How the EU would crumble and dissolve in a series of other countries quitting. The EU didn't and support for the EU in its member states is as high as it ever was, even rising.
Every single one of your arrigant "predictions" failed, Dribs. You're now holding onto the last bastion of your conviction, that somehow you will at least get to see something crash and burn. And then you'll sit here and go "Well, I told you so..."
First, you didn't. You told us an entirely different story that you adjusted again and again the less likely any sort of advantageous Brexit for the UK became. And even if you did... at what cost? When will you finally admit that your whole charade is just bollocks and you're really just a pathetic, insecure little Brexiteer that has no clue what's going to happen next and if your video games are going to be more expensive.
I mean you never had much respect from me, but I'm sure you'll pretend you don't care. Well, your fellow British people seem to care. I speak to them on a daily basis. They're really not too happy about it. See, in the business world, these things actually matter and affect people. These tradespeople don't have the luxury of living at mom's and getting dinner served every evening for free. They actually have to deal with continental Europe. You've built up an entire service industry that seems to make about 80% of your GDP by now... servicing the EU. And you, Dribbelino, want to throw that away because at some point 2 years ago someone told you on this forum that you're quite deranged for posting your anti-EU drivel and so you decided to go with "Team Brexit". Not because you believe in it, but because you're part of the sheep group that just needs to belong to a side, doesn't matter just how stupid it it.
And all the time, you never once quoted the treaties or any other actual legal text. Only going with your daily mail and other disreputable sources. Your posts are a joke and you do not seem to improve at all the further this goes on.
I pity everyone who has to live in the same country as you do. People like you make it so much harder for everyone else. You are a liability on society. I just wanted to explain that to you.
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As I've said before, the door will be kept open for you guys. But the next time you want to enter the club, you'll have to close it behind you and go all the way through. We're done with British exceptionalism, I hope.