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Readers voted in our poll on whether they think the Prime Minister will get a deal with Brussels before the end of the year. About 74 percent of those surveyed said no, while 17 percent answered yes.
Eight percent said maybe and one percent didn’t know.
Commenting on the survey, one reader was enraged: “Any agreement that the EU finds acceptable is not an agreement that we would find acceptable.
“It is better to clear the covers, go to the WTO, reestablish our global presence as a sovereign and independent state and only then reopen the initially informal discussions from an unencumbered starting point.
“The EU is STILL trapped in its unfounded belief that we are somehow still a member state or client and subject to its whims, rules and fantasies.
“Only when they are disillusioned with those notions can we even begin to talk to them sensibly.”
Another damn: “The best way to reach an agreement with the EU will be to leave now. They will come running.
“We don’t have another 20 years to wait for them.”
A third hit: “Hopefully not. The EU will be history in a few years.
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A fifth added: “As long as whatever option offers a complete exit and the total elimination of all remaining tentacles of the EU’s insidious political apparatus, frankly, it doesn’t matter which way it goes.”
The UK left the EU on January 31 and is in a transition period with Brussels until the end of the year as the two sides try to negotiate a post-Brexit trade deal.
But talks are deadlocked with fisheries and state aid rules proving to be major sticking points.
The eighth round of negotiations led by Lord Frost and his EU counterpart Michel Barnier takes place this week in London.
In comments to be made on Monday, Boris Johnson will make it clear that if a deal is to be reached, it must be reached by the October European Council.
The Prime Minister will say: “We are now entering the final phase of our negotiations with the EU.
“The EU has been very clear about the timing. Me too.
“There needs to be an agreement with our European friends before the October 15 European Council if it is to be in force by the end of the year.
“So there is no point in thinking about timelines that go beyond that point.
“If we can’t agree by then, then I don’t see that there will be a free trade agreement between us, and we should both accept it and move on.”
Johnson will also insist that no deal would be a “good outcome” for Britain.
Express.co.uk surveyed 3,102 people on September 6.
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