How wise is it to play Protocol poker with a weak hand everybody can see?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : In other words, all those tedious and cancerous battles with the EU over sovereignty that were supposed to be solved by Brexit are still with us.
53% : This is all about the religious conviction of his ultra Brexiter wing, the European Research Group, that Brexit should have expelled the European Court of Justice from every inch of the UK.
48% : What if the EU were to begin with retaliation in earnest and threaten a trade war which would increase tariffs to a NI departing the single market?
45% : A cannier strategy is suggested by the independent Conservative commentator Paul Goodman, editor of Conservative HomeLet's start by agreeing that the EU doesn't feel it owes Boris Johnson any favours -It sees no reason to hand the UK a competitive advantage: hence standoffs over standards and regulation.

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