The UK like Hamlet, can’t make up its mind.
Europe is getting fed up. Brexit is proving a lot harder to complete than people expected.
It’s only hard to complete because the UK leaders are the stuff of chamberlain when they need a Churchill.
The EU has never had any desire or impetuous to negotiate a fair separation.
The EU’s survival depends on keeping its members in line and making sure those other uppity nations who dare to think national sovereignty is important. They were never going to let UK leave without making in painful, so painful that no other nation would dare try to leave.
The UK should have been preparing for hard brexit from the day the vote passed. Negotiate with hope it would not come to that, but fully expect and plan for this eventuality. Instead they stuck their noses in the sand