I don't disagree with the spirit of what you say.. But I don't think the entire us population will feel insulted by how Trump is treated here.. Half the population over there hate him.
And you.. Shame you have sold out your idealism for profit.. So many did
. She should have bitten his hand off for such an offer which would have avoided the mess we are now in. Instead she invented the "backstop". 
Deliver this as an ultimatum in this way and the EU. will just say 'close the door after you've gone' Scully. You are, in effect, asking for all of the benefits of membership without any of the responsibilities. You are saying 'we want your trade but we don't want you'. The fact is that this would amount to us saying - 'either do what we want or we will open ourselves up for the USA to jump in and then you will see the benefits of having a bargain basement country on your own doorstep'. Threatening postures of this kind would lead to a poisoning of British European relations for years to come. Democracy is a living, breathing thing which does not stand still, and cannot be frozen in time - if the people have changed their minds about Brexit then it would be a travesty of a democracy which did not take that into account. With regard to future British European relations - they are still your closest partners, and even Belgium will always be more important to you than the USA is, because of its geographical proximity. Even with a deal of some sort, a great deal of collateral damage has been done already - because trade needs good will on both sides. You can have all the deals you like but if Europeans actually don't want to buy British goods, or services, in effect, leaving them on the shelf - then no amount of free trade deals will help. I, for one, would not buy anything from a country where my wife (German) is not welcome.In my favourite newspaper Conservative MP Mark Francois (unfortunate surname in this context) states that Donald Tusk offered the UK a free trade agreement in March 2018 which May did not take up
He writes:
The new prime minister when he/she goes to the first European Council should say something along these line:
..."You need to understand , very clearly, that we are under new management. We want to trade with you equitably, in future, to our mutual advantage, but we will no longer be talked down to. The senior civil servants that were seemingly working for you are no longer in our employ.
We firmly intend to leave the EU on 31 October and thus honour the instruction of the British People in the 2016 referendum. We wish to do this amicably, but the reality is that you cannot stop us doing it anyway. The Withdrawal Agreement is dead, so we wish to move straight to the "future relationship" now bypassing the legally meaningless political declaration.
We would therefor like to begin to negotiate a comprehensive Free Trade Agreement with you, so that we can continue to trade successfully into the foreseeable future. If you do not wish to do this yet, we will continue to trade independently on WTO terms until you see sense.
I do not expect you to agree to this immediately, but be in no doubt you are dealing with a different leader, with an iron determination to leave the EU in October and one way or another, that is precisely what we are going to do"...
Seems reasonable to me and should get the support of parliament and the country and most especially puts the ball right back in the EU court.
I know most of you don't want to leave the EU but parliament would be seriously failing the British people and democracy if they did not honour the referendum result. I would be very surprised that this approach would not get the support of the British people in any subsequent referendum.
To be fair as well the EU has always been clear that once we get the Withdrawal Agreement sorted out it will be willing to offer a Canada Plus trade deal.
Of course - but that's why they should have signed the damn thing. There's nothing that couldn't be renegotiated in the context of a trade deal but it was the Uber Brexit crowd that were too stupid to realise. I have said on here many times that no deal is not the card to play now but it might be when we hit trade negotiations. We cannot ever have a deal as good as the one we have inside the EU but the die has been cast so let's look at what's best.
