This is entirely logical. The UK is fed up being one within 28.  It wants to be treated as an equal partner with the EU27.  After all it used to run an empire on which the sun never set.  The whole premise of the UK approach to the Brexit negotiation is based on this.  The UK government is luxuriating in all the attention it is getting as a result of Brexit. No one ever gave it so much respect when it was only one amongst 28.  Unfortunately it's days in the sun are numbered, and on April 1st. 2019 the sun will set, and even fools will begin to realise it will never rise in quite the same way again.

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