It’s just like a divorce when one party is done and the other hangs on for dear life
True. The UK called for a divorce on 29 march 2019 and did nothing to prepare. And then on 22 March begged for a little more time.
Then on 9 April for more time.
Come on UK, if you want to leave, leave already. What a bunch of wankers.
It's certainly like that in one way: if the divorce doesn't go off, what sort of a relationship will they have afterward? The EU has a seven-year budgetary adjustment coming up and Jacob Rees-Mogg has proposed simply vetoing it, which a single member state can do. (It cannot do so for a regular annual budget). Not for any particular reason, just to make life difficult for the EU tsars. You don't really have one happy partner and one unhappy one in such situations, you have two unhappy partners.