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A nice thought, but I think that, in reality, those counties' leaders' overriding loyalty will be to staying in the EU. Look at David Cameron's stance throughout the run-up to the Brexit--he'd never have undermined the EU project to secure an advantage for Britain post-exit.

Non-UK politicians dissatisfied with the current state of EU, giving UK a better deal at the expense of their own country? Sounds rather unlikely...

(Maybe they could sabotage their own negotiation and use that as a talking point against EU, but that's a risky gamble.)

Yes, I'm talking about sabotaging the negotiations.

That would possibly be true if most of the countries dissatisfied with the EU weren't the ones who are struggling economically.

The politicians in power are all in favor of the EU. Otherwise they'd probably have opted to leave themselves.