Mar 29, 2019
Didn’t realise how many people are protesting in London til I saw the newsfeed - there’s hundreds of them and this has been going on for a couple of weeks! 😱😳
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Didn’t realise how many people are protesting in London til I saw the newsfeed - there’s hundreds of them and this has been going on for a couple of weeks! 😱😳
Tony Blair’s former chief of staff argues the UK has performed disastrously in Brexit negotiations.
...First, we massively overestimated the strength of our negotiating position. It is true we are equally sovereign as the EU, but we are not sovereign equals. They are much larger, and we depend on them much more for trade than they do on us. That is why we have had to back down every step of the way, accepting EU insistence that we agree the divorce agreement first, putting a trade border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K., accepting a single legal treaty and finally Boris Johnson caving in just before the end-of-year deadline. The same disparity of strength exists with the U.S., and we should bear that in mind during trade negotiations with Washington.
Second, we fired the starting gun before we had worked out our own position, with the result that we spent the first two years negotiating with ourselves while EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier’s clock was ticking. Triggering Article 50 — the legal mechanism that kicked off a time-limited exit process — before we were ready meant we constantly found ourselves facing a self-inflicted deadline by which we had to concede or face severe economic and political costs. We should have waited until we knew what we wanted and only then pulled the trigger rather than blundering in without knowing our desired end point. This was not the fault of the negotiators but of their political leaders...
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Frankly, the UK should have worked out what it wanted then held a second referendum. That’s on that cunt Cameron. Firing the gun too early, that’s on May. She did fuck all in the 8½ months she was in power before triggering Article 50
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Post-Brexit trade deal talks will continue, U.K., European Union officials say
Post-Brexit trade deal talks will continue, U.K., European Union officials say
Britain and the European Union say talks will continue on a free trade agreement — a deal that if sealed would avert New Year’s chaos for cross-border traders and bring a measure of certainty for businesses after years of Brexit turmoil.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnsonand European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen had set Sunday as the deadline for a breakthrough or breakdown in…
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No-deal Brexit a ‘strong possibility,’ Johnson says, as deadline nears
No-deal Brexit a ‘strong possibility,’ Johnson says, as deadline nears
With a chaotic and costly no-deal Brexit three weeks away, leaders of both the European Union and United Kingdom saw an ever likelier collapse of trade talks Thursday, and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson even spoke of a “strong possibility” of failure.
Both sides told their citizens to brace for a New Year’s shock, as trade between the U.K. and the European mainland could face its biggest…
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