This head line is rubbish.

Check on this headline and its follow on blurb:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/19/theresa-may-must-know-eu-plans-punish-britain-has-no-choice/

Trade between Britain and the EU is, I believe, estimated annually at seventy billion pounds sterling. 

This is a lot of money, even for the EU to walk away from. So what is the punishment to be?