“J’aurais réussi ma mission si, à la fin, le deal est tellement dur pour les Britanniques qu’ils préféront rester dans l’Union.” In English: “I’ll have done my job if, in the end, the deal is so tough on the British that they’d prefer to stay in the EU”. The speaker, as you have probably guessed, is Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator. He is reported in the French current affairs weekly Le Point as having spoken those words to EU leaders in 2016. The article adds that most of the leaders shared his view, as well as that of Jean-Claude Juncker, who said that Brexit must be a form of “punishment” for deserters". https://www.conservativehome.com/th...5kOPVJ3N6MOjUCS86763cbMAQcB3jDoUTiUOjzUr2wFZk
Am I stupid? I really can’t see where this is headed now. If another vote it should be 1. Leave with no deal 2. Remain 3. No confidence in government or opposition parties - sack the lot of them.
I think its likely that any deal agreed by a parliamentry majority would be added to any future vote/ referendum. Re option 3, that what Labour wants - a General Election. Theres unlikely to be enough time for any of the above before 29th March. May ends each day with plans to contact/ negotiate/ revise yet starts everyday with the same redlines/ refusal to change her deal. Its like an extreme case of Deja Vu or endless an Groundhog movie. Her deal started out being called Chequers last July when half the cabinet resigned, yet here we are with the same old shite, different day. Some admire her resillience. Personally I think she resembles the Black Knight in Monty Pythons Holy Grail Movie.
Re option 3. I was intending Labour and other opposing parties being sacked too, none of them seem to have any idea what the people want. If they’d started off by saying we are going to leave without a ‘deal’ 2 years ago I don’t think we’d be in this mess now and maybe have other agreements in place / nearly sorted by now.
No confidence means an Election, where the parties put forward their plans & leader, the public then choose the ones they dislike least. Though perhaps you are suggesting the current politicians are all banned from standing?
It is what I’m suggesting yes. Though not just banned from standing, sacked, like I’m sure most of us would be if we’d done a bad job. Don’t know where that would leave us though.
Does she perhaps think another referendum could possibly return a leave WTO outcome ? Edit And as the BBC and sky at least are keen on saying ‘no one wants that’
If this is indeed real news and not fake news I’m surprised it’s not been picked up by certain parts of the UK media in the past. Also I’m surprised no-one in Govt or Parliament has had the temerity to question MB as to whether he did actually utter those words. I would have thought the likes of JRM, BB & DD would have made something of it. (I know the last 2 sound like bra sizes but no tittering at the back there!). If, indeed, it is real then it is the perfect exemplifier of why the UK should leave, and leave soon, even if it’s on a no-deal basis.
