Does the EU actually want a trade deal with Brexit UK?

Basically the EU which not that long ago included the UK as an esteemed member just doesn't want to do a trade deal with us Brits because if the 27 nations of the European Union are seen to have been outsmarted by Boris and co, the union as such will be for ever damaged, if not eternally emasculated. The union has to be seen to have won a great victory by punishing anyone who dares to leave. And the best way to punish the UK and thus deter other countries from following the UK example is to tie us Brits into so many concessions that after December 31 we will be view not just by Brussels but by the rest of the world as EU-lite members. In other words that precious total sovereignty which slightly more than half the country wanted to revive after 50 years in the EU would be seen as an illusion. Once in the EU, always in even if out, technically. That's the message the EU bureaucrats and political leaders want to get across. Don't get me wrong I have been anti-Brexit from the start. I never believed Britain could or should survive as a separate entity from Europe. And now that we are just over three weeks away from the deadline of December 31 - set by Boris - the EU has determined that it will not let Britain have any trade deal unless it can keep its tentacles wrapped around the island nation. Fisheries is a key point. They want access to all the lovely cod and hake and haddock to put on their restaurant tables and into their supermarkets and insist it's their right to take pretty well what they want. And they, or the French actually, want a guarantee that they can take their fish from our waters for ten years. Poor Boris. He can't possibly agree to that because the one big stipulation is that the EU has to recognise Britain's right to full sovereignty. And that won't be the case if Macron and co demand that they can fish whenever they want in UK territorial waters. Boris wants to be able to say, "they can fish when the UK tells them they can fish". But that goes against everything the EU has come to take for granted. So there can only be a deal on fish if the EU or the UK surrenders. Ergo, it won't happen. If it does and it's Boris who concedes, his premiership will go up in smoke. Smoked fish!