@cee-dee wrote:
I suppose it's too simplistic to look at Brexit this way?:-
You join a club, you have to be accepted and pay a joining fee. Then, during your membership, you pay your dues and accept the benefits of membership. You decide to leave so stop paying your dues and any benefits of membership end. That's the end of it.
If you want to continue enjoying just some benefits of membership, that's a different story with a different structure of paying any dues. You don't have to consider how much it's gonna cost you to leave before you do, you just stop paying the dues you used to pay and after that, negotiate costs of any benefit from the club or it's members?
If you were a member of a golf club and during your membership you agreed to contributing £x a year for 5 years to build a new course you couldn't just end your membership early and stop paying the amount you contracted to pay for the new course.
The amount 'due' will all be part of the negotiations, the EU have opened with £50 billion, David Davis with zero - no doubt the final amount will be somewhere in between.
