Brexit Party chairman Richard Tice has been slammed by a leading trade expert for coming up with an EU negotiating strategy that could have been devised by an 11 year-old child.

Writing for The Telegraph today, Tice says the UK should take the EU by surprise and try to force through trade negotiations sooner than planned, while they are “fearful and weakened” [his words].

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“We should approach this in the way our magnificent Special Forces approach their military operations: hitting the target hard and fast, with pin point precision,” he writes.

Not surprisingly, Tice’s plan – surely cooked up with his pals on Call of Duty after school last night – has been roasted by people who actually know what they’re talking about.

Indeed, the most brutal putdown came from former Australian trade negotiator Dmitry Grozoubinski, who tweeted: “This is without exception the stupidest trade policy paragraph I have ever read.

“I basically read idiotic hot-takes on trade for a living and I have never seen a dumber suggestion.”

This is presumably because Tice is completely failing to understand how trade deals work. One side can’t simply force through a negotiation on its own terms, especially when the UK doesn’t have a detailed understanding currently of what it wants to achieve.

But Tice’s bizarre, playground policy could well have an alternate purpose.

“It doesn’t matter how mad a suggestion is. They have to make them now to leave an exit when [Brexit] reality bites,” James O’Brien tweeted in response.

“Well, it wouldn’t have gone to shit if they’d followed my advice,” is the approach that Tice is adopting, O’Brien says.

We would tend to agree with him.

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