Brexit brexit brexit

It has hardly started but already everyone is sick of Brexit. The first day of the "negotiations" the EU bureaucrats dictated the timetable and took no heed of the programme proposed by David Davis, the minister in charge of the UK exiting the EU. Actually, David Davis is a nice guy, a good bloke, probably too nice to deal with the stoney-faced EU negotiator with his floppy hair. I mean I want to stay in the EU but like everyone else in this country I have to accept that the Leave voters won - just - so I'm looking for the May government to do us proud. But Davis got told what the EU wanted on Day One and that was it. Then off goes Theresa to lay out what she has in mind for the three million EU nationals living and working in the UK and offered, or so it appeared to me, to allow them all to stay and live happily ever. Those who have been here five years or more after the Brexit date will get full rights to everything - NHS, social benefits etc - and those who have been here for a shorter period will be allowed to stay until they have reached the five-year point. Sounds reasonable to me. But no, the EU bosses said that was no good, or not sufficient. It's clear this is the way it's going to go. The EU will only say yes ok when they get precisely what THEY want. What makes me so angry is that none of this should be happening. What on earth are we doing leaving the EU? It's crazy, the UK economy, business, security, everything is going to suffer. A Japanese bank has already announced it's going to set up home in Frankfurt instead of London. We're going to become a miserable little island of no consequence. And just to underline it, the EU negotiators are going to rub our noses in it. By the time it's all over we'll be so mad and depressed and downhearted, we won't even want to go on holiday to France any more.