Quote:It's pointless reading anything anyone says outside of Merkel. It's also pretty obvious they won't acknowledge in public how much they are willing to bend for obvious negotiation reasons. The sticking point is always going to be free movement of people, but Merkel desperately wants us buying German cars..

Now you're just embarrassing yourself. First it was "Merkel will give the UK what they want" then when faced with direct evidence to the contrary it's "Merkel want to give UK what it wants, she's just not saying it". As for German cars: Not a chance in hell will the Germans risk the EU dividing just to sell some cars in the UK. They will happily implode that entire industry to keep the free trade zone the EU is now.

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