Oh i see, so the message is, tear up your ehic card and go to a bank and pay for it?

So that's 7 euros for visa entry, loss of free access to 27 other countries, longer queues at passport control and no health care?

Loving this new freedom

Small(er) = Weak(er) / Big(ger) = Strong(er).

There are many kinds of weakness. One of them is the inability to tell the difference between relative strength and weakness.

The point is you lose something tangible but what do you get in return?

If there is belief or, as I suppose is common now, the buying into sensationalised tabloid stories about health tourism, then that is something the government should worry about, people like us shouldn't really give a toss

That is what Brexit is, giving away everything gained over forty years for nothing at all.

Isolation and continued austerity are all the UK has to look forward too.

Bexit is not about the good of the country but the conservative party, as we have seen, and Europe is realising.

The conservative party lives to have conflict with Europe, it is their 'modus operandi', in this way they can avoid governing the country with the population focussed on Brexit.

The word of the UK PM is meaningless, as is her deal in our name, not worth a w**k, the UK parliament an absurdity just look at them changing their minds on the deal just to keep the tories 'united'.

You seem to be forgetting the huge number of traditional working class Labour voting cities and towns that voted overwhelmingly for Brexit

Apparently the EU are standing firm on refusing to negotiate around the Irish border issue.

It's their right of course but I do not understand their position.

If we leave without a deal in 2 months how are they going to deal with the major customs issue that they believe exists (I don't)?

As I see it the EU has 3 choices:

1. No deal and they have to handle the fallout in 2 months.
2. Agree a form of exit clause which give both sides a breather and probably 2/3 years to negotiate a trade deal which also solves this problem.
3. Same as 2. but in this case we can't agree a trade deal after 2/3 years discussion. This then becomes a hard Brexit but the EU will have time to prepare for this and they will get 39bn of our money.

Maybe I am missing something but I would have though options 2 and 3 are far more attractive then option 1.

just to be clear I am all for leaving with no deal I am just trying to understand why the EU thinks its makes sense not to compromise.