What is the govts motivation?

[notevenat20]

Could anyone pro Brexit/Tory please explain the govts motivation at the moment please.

Normally politicians either act in the interests of the country or themselves. I don’t understand how having no deal with the EU is good for either. Why does it benefit Johnson if there is chaos and extra costs for UK business? I can see he might blame it all on covid but wouldn’t it have been better for him if he had arranged deals that helped the UK and then told us all what a success Brexit was? I am confused.

@Kendodd I perhaps should have said that the EU needs to demonstrate to its other member states that being outside is a worse option than membership. This is why it won’t allow the UK to ‘cherry pick’. They don’t want other countries to decide that the grass is greener. Which it isn’t, obv.

EU needs to demonstrate to its other member states that being outside is a worse option than membership
NO
They need to prove that non members do not get members' perks
that is all

Its also a message to the countries waiting to join
that those in the club get the support of the whole club
so long as they obey the rules

Yep, the rhetoric still going strong.