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  With over 2000 postings on this thread, mostly berating the Brexit progress so far, perhaps maybe, just maybe, there is emerging a negotiating tactic which could be pre-planned!
  
  Taking the DUP onboard ‘to prop up the Conservative government’ could have a dual purpose. The Republic of Ireland PM is getting more vociferous regarding the border , which was always on the cards, so the DUP’s support may help stop any rash decisions being taken.
  
  The lack of progress as the EU see it could be a means to get them to change tack and throw in a few more foreseen spanner’s, (Gibraltar)?
  
  Negotiations, as in buying and selling can be in Arthur Daly’s ‘wham bang thank you ma’am style,’ or a controlled plan to achieve a desired conclusion. Failing this there is always the option of just walking away.
  
  I’m inclined to agree with Ross that the government couldn’t fail to miss all the problems which Brexit involved so perhaps taking a more optimistic view should prevail regarding the outcome.
  
  Companies threatening to move out and more UK citizens applying for EU passports only illustrates further the ‘white flag mentality’ of some who only consider themselves and are not prepared to work for this countries future.
  
  Whether they voted remain or leave we are all in it together and should not foul up the negotiations by not supporting a democratically made decision and providing the EU dictatorship with yet more ammunition.
  
  Border problems, operation stack and many other problems that we may have to surmount in the future might not be too much different from what we experience now. The French fishermen or farmers always become militant and blockade roads and ports when they have a grievance.
  
  So nothing new there!
  
  Negotiations should be a structured process with the aim of producing a mutually agreed outcome:
  
  
  
  .........let’s hope that this will eventually be achieved!

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