This "deal" is the best they could come up with so how do you "negotiate" a different deal when (if?) the EU just won't budge another inch? If the "negotiations" were handed over to those who oppose the current deal, what would they be able to achieve that would be so vastly different and supposedly "acceptable"?

Anyway, just WHO actually did the "negotiating" for this deal, who was face to face with the EU side and would they (as faceless bureaucrats) be doing the negotiating all over again?

I've said before that you can't negotiate any further with those who don't really want to negotiate so just where would any future negotiations get us?

If you're trying to buy something that the "owner" doesn't really want to sell, the owner often asks some ridiculously high price to put you off. If you "negotiate", you get to a point where the owner digs his heeels in and says "No more, that's it, take it or leave it".

It really looks like the EU are saying "this is the only deal you'll get, take it or leave it"?