UK Must Learn To 'Play Hard Ball' With The Evil Empire!

'The UK won't ROLL OVER!' British MEP DESTROYS Brussels' Brexit demands

THE EUROPEAN UNION needs to stop trying to push the United Kingdom into giving in to its demands in exchange for nothing, blasts Ukip's MEP Jonathan Arnott.

By AURORA BOSOTTI

The North East MEP pilloried the European Union for its excessive Brexit requests to the United Kingdom.

Mr Arnott said: "The European Union isn’t asking us to give up a little bit and get something in return.

"They’re asking us to give up a huge amount and get absolutely nothing in return and then try to make the UK seem unreasonable for not rolling over and accepting it."

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Mr Arnott said the EU was trying to make the UK seem unreasonable

The British politician, who served as the Ukip's Constitutional Affairs and EU budget spokesperson, said the UK is not legally required to pay any further contribution to Brussels.

He said Britain might decide to pay the EU in exchange for certain programmes or services but the UK Government would have the decisional power on such matters.

Mr Arnott continued: "There is no legal requirement on the UK to pay a divorce bill to leave the European Union.

"The European Union is asking for a number of things which the UK may decide that it wishes to pay some of in return for something else. It may as well decide to tell the EU ‘sorry, not a penny.’ It’s up to the UK to make that decision.

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"We need to make a stand on this because if we don’t this early in the negotiations what message does that send to the rest of the negotiations?"

Secretary David Davis savaged the EU Commission for trying to bully the British Government.

Talking to BBC presenter Andrew Marr, Mr Davis accused his EU counterpart Michel Barnier of misleading the public by claiming no progress had been made during the tense third round of Brexit talks.

He said: "Bluntly, the press conference looked a bit silly because we have achieved quite a lot. The Commission is looking very silly."

"They have set this up, they are trying to play time to put the pressure on us for money. They want it rushed through but we are going through the bill line by line, so they keep complaining. They are finding it difficult because we have very good lawyers. We are doing it in a very pragmatic, very British way."