The essence of Karl’s point cuts through every other post, and every single piece of journalistic comment on the issue – we don’t know what is going to happen.
Everything the papers, and the government say, is etirely speculation, so there is no point considering this rumour or that – the negotiations are barely under way.
What we need to do is remember that key word – negotiations – and the essence of that concept is that neither side reveals its full position from the start. They reveal bit by bit as they both start from opposite sides of the outcome – millions in payments from them, no trade at all from us unless it’s free – and we meet in the middle with some give and take from both sides.
Until then, everyone is whistling in the dark – it’s a waste of time, but it keeps journalists in a job, and it sells papers – but, and this is the point – everyone is making it up.
Let’s wait and see what the reality is, instead of dreaming up notions and then getting het up as though they are happening tomorrow.