I know it's not scientific, but I saw a feature on the News where they asked a sample of city workers what they thought of DC's stance and they all thought he'd done the right thing. The continentals may well try to shaft the city now, but if they do it will drive public opinion further away from the EU project and imo hasten our withdrawal. I'm all for a free trade common market, but I utterly detest poltical and fiscal union and it is the latter which the EU has always been about as far as the French and Germans are concerned.