Why is anyone surprised the UK and EU do not agree about Brexit?

It took three meetings to lay bare the extent of divisions between the UK and EU.Like a collision between supertankers, the clash between British and European Brexit negotiators has been a long time coming, but no less spectacular for it.The EU course was set at least six months ago, when European commission negotiators first determined that the most practical way to disentangle Britain’s complex membership was to separate out the even more vexed question of future trade relations, which r