Interesting Article On The Dichotomy Of Brexit Here:

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/20/five-reasons-why-europe-will-make-life-impossible-for-theresa-ma/

[Peter Pedant]

ah and the dichotomy ( = a bit like a trilemma only with a leg knocked off ) is between

Brexit is a bad idea and
Brexit is a very bad idea

[jim360]

It strikes me that the flaw in this article is that it assumes that the EU is led by sensible people.

[naomi24]

Jim, and there's me thinking you were all admiration for the EU. :o/

[jim360]

I can't think where you can possibly have got that impression...

But actually, I wasn't so much in blind love and admiration EU in the first place; rather, I thought it was flawed, but still preferable to the disruption caused by leaving, the relatively low chances of leaving actually improving anything, and the impression that Brexit was the wrong direction for the country even if it worked economically.

[New Judge]

Quite honestly it matters not whether Europe makes life difficult or even impossible for Mrs May. She is charged with leading the country out of the EU. That needs to be accomplished without regard for the feelings of other European nations and regardless of the conditions of any "deal" that may be struck.

The EU alas suffers from the delusion that its club is worthy of membership and that only countries within it can thrive. This is clearly a false assumption as their economic figures will attest. Further than that, since wealth and the fragility of the EU economy are not the only reasons the UK voted to leave, whether a deal advantageous to the UK can be negotiated or not does not realy matter. There are far more important issues to consider which have been well discussed here and elsewhere and they put the economic considerations well towards the back of the queue.

[Old_Geezer]

Seems an extraordinarily pessimistic article.

Much seems to be countered by acknowledging the situation has changed and playing the stubborn donkey has already proven not to work; since we experienced that and so voted to get out.

Accepting that trying to cut off one's own nose to spite one's face is not the sort of decisions intelligent folk make.

That the EU and Europe are not synonymous, and whilst those in the upper positions in the EU may be seething, Europe as a whole aren't going to be.

And actions the EU may consider that could benefit one EU country will likely be detrimental to another; which they'd find rather divisive and damaging for them.

If any side has problems what to do it will be the EU. Their best bet it to drop the charade of unmovable rules and start to look at what is the best win/win agreement, noting the back lines that we will not, nay, can not afford to cross.