New Judge's points are typically well-argued and retain the relavent information.
I would find the irony of Tony Blair talking about 'tightening' immigration amusing, were it not the height of arrogance - he remains yesterday's man with blood on his hands.
The EU is busy making life as tough as possible for the negotiations because it is terrified that any other member state with doubts - which is a lot of them - would see a simple straightforward exit as a green light for them to do the same, and the collapse of the EU like a house of cards.
The British government should have learned from Cameron's disaster - if you go in being polite and humble, the EU will first of all laugh at you, and the tear you to pieces.
Mr Hammond should be approaching these negotiations from the position of strength that Britain actually has, and stop pretending that the EU still has the sort of power over us that made the electorate vote to leave its clutches in the first place.