None of these things are aces . None of them alters the fundamental relationship between the UK and EU . All of these things are stuff that might make our position weaker than the fundamentals suggest . Our problem is the fundamentals just aren ' t good regardless of any secondary factors . If we ' re going to use a poker analogy this would be saying we aren ' t short stacked so can play our cards for maximum value . The problem is our cards don ' t really have much value . It doesn ' t matter overly if you can call a big play if you are sat on 72 o . You aren ' t going to call a big play on 72 o no matter what is in your stack . <| sep |> Unless the girl in your scenario is also shy , in which case it would still be awkward .