President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, has shown his true colours, saying that a special place in hell is reserved for those who campaigned for Brexit without a plan for how to do it. The plan was to leave and that's what should happen after the referendum. No doubt Tusk's plan would be for the UK to not leave despite the result.
But in this process of leaving, Britain is being decidedly soft in its approach. What about some hard ball? Example: about a third of all international air travel within the EU commences within Britain. If those departures do not occur you know what would happen? Every airline in western Europe goes bust, that's what. Theresa May could threaten to shut off the conveyor. Watch the faces of the EU negotiators ashen.
Or say Britain decides to make its own civil aircraft, leaving Airbus swinging in the breeze? Get tough in other words, stop being so apologetic.
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