Exactly why they are doing this. They want to ensure we get the worse deal possible which will ensure 2 things. The UK will not go for the deal and possibly stay in the EU. Secondly they will send a message to anyone wanting to vote Le Pen, Five star etc. It is a win situation for them to go into the negotiation with this approach. They have also tried to break the negotiation into 2 parts. We have to basically give them what they want before they can even discuss what we want. This isn't how negotiating works. This approach by the EU will lead to hard Brexit. That is at least the impression they want to give. However we need to stick to our guns. The EU will come under immense pressure internally to do a good deal. We need a very strong government to do this and the more seats aligned to Brexit the better. The EU can not try to divide and conquer our parliament. We will divide and conquer the EU by dealing with individual countries privately.
We should begin focusing on getting deals with commonwealth countries as well as the EEA and Switzerland. Then go further than this with other countries. We have the freedom to do this now. The Ireland border could also be solved if they left the EU. Either leave completely or move to the Swiss or EEA position so that we can setup an agreement more easily.
Who signed Liam Fox up to OcUK?