If they're worried that they might make others want to leave then they need to take a good look at why this may be.  Surely if being a member of the EU was such a wonderful deal then there wouldn't be so many wondering about leaving.

I'd really hoped that the Brexit vote might have been the shock they needed to change, stop dictating like prison camp guards and start listening, become much more democratic, take a step back from becoming a European government and go back to being more like the trading club that it was originally supposed to be.  I reckon that if this had happened then many, including me, might want to change our minds.

Instead, they've made lots of pronouncements about further integration and closer unity.  In other words making it more difficult for others to leave - putting up more barbed wire, not actually making them want to stay.

I just hope our negotiators are prepared to stand up to their bad attitude.