What I would like and what is possible are two totally different things.

 

I’d like to have all the benefits of being a member of the EU without any of the disadvantages.  The single market without the free movement of people, the customs union but with the ability to make our own trade deals, the supremacy of our courts and Parliament with the ability to appeal to the European institutions if we don’t like our decisions, sole access to our fishing grounds but with the freedom to fish in European waters, the right to live and/or work anywhere in the EU without giving other EU members the same right to live/work in the UK . . . . . . and, of course, not make any contribution to the EU budget but still receive EU investment.

 

I’m only guessing but I presume the above terms would probably gain a Parliamentary majority in favour but anyone who thinks the EU would, or could, agree to any one of those terms is living in cloud cuckoo land.  Unfortunately without such an unrealistic agreement no deal will win a Parliamentary majority.

 

Having read through the terms of the agreement that is on offer I really do think it is the best we can expect and enables the UK to leave the EU in an orderly manner.