It is fair to say that the Brexit process has not gone as smoothly as many people would have hoped. On the plus side, the British economy is not in recession, but it is underperforming against all other European economies at this time. On the down side, the UK is nowhere near having any trade deals with either the EU nor anyone else for that matter. Assurances by David Davis that we would have the final deal with the EU ready by October are laughable, and there are no trade deals lined up with an other countries either, in spite of David Davis claiming that the UK would have dozens of trade agreements ready to sign in March 2019. Negotiations with the EU are going very badly for Britain, with the UK ceding to all of the EU's demands, and getting bogged down in details such as the role of the ECJ, citizens' rights and of course the border in Northern Ireland. The slow progress is due to several factors. First is "inflexibility". The EU has been rigid, and quite in