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"On a couple of issues, some differences do remain" – UK PM Theresa May on failure to reach deal with EU in #Brexit talks https://t.co/UEqjIb9s51 pic.twitter.com/b5OqkrAsXy
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Another referendum in 2019.
Just popping in to luxuriate in the schadenfreude.
See you at the next referendum.
Some might opt for the former.
BBC reporting disappointment in the EU, so counting your chickens comes into mind
She allowed both her natural instincts (limited as they are) together with her Brexito-loons to dictate the pace.
Apparently he taught Cameron. But not clear he was listening in those tutorials.
Mr. B2, I have mentioned it once or twice
Some on here should be ashamed of themselves how low you think of this country.
It's probably the only way the DUP can save face after their kamikaze support for Brexit in the first place.
One is that May agreed to a lot of stuff but did not clear it with the DUP and so has backed away from an agreement at the last minute.
The other is that she did not agree and that the EU has tried to bounce her into an agreement through leaking the details of their proposal.
All the Remainers on here all day have assumed it was the first. It is equally as likely it was the second and there appears to be no evidence to support one contention over the other.
I would like to think that the Remainers would learn a lesson from this, but I very much doubt they will.
My guess - contrary to what I have long planned upon - is that ultimately a deal will therefore be done.
But being "minded" counts for nothing if you can't get the backing to sign that deal, and the effect of today is that this backing is less, not more likely.
Throw the DUP into the sea if the bugger up the Brexit deal.
At least someone on our side seems to know how to negotiate.
Not that I'm still annoyed about it.
Mr. W, ****ing hell. She might as well don a gimp suit if she's going that far. What's the point of leaving if we're going to let the EU dictate our regulations?
The 1922 Committee should (figuratively) put her in a sack, throw her in the Thames and get a PM who has a spine, brain, and guts (or at least a couple of them).
On the plus side, it does make my 6.5 on another vote pre-2020 seem good value.
Edited extra bit: that does assume Peston's right. And we all recall how accurate he was just as the polling closed on the referendum.
I may have been a shade excessive. Maybe.
To summarise the day - no deal is better than a bad deal.
Brexit needs someone with the wisdom of Solomon. It has someone with all the nous of Frank Spencer (“Some Mothers do ‘Ave ‘Em) handling it.
BBC reports ......
"Belgian MEP Philippe Lamberts earlier told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that the UK had made a concession on the Irish border.
The BBC's political editor said Mr Lamberts had said the UK was prepared to accept that Northern Ireland may remain in the EU's customs union and single market in all but name"
https://twitter.com/MrTCHarris/status/937688219747012608
http://enormo-haddock.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/2017-post-season-review.html
I just can't see the EU wanting to align their regulations with those of the UK.
Continent cut off by fuzzy thinking.
Had Remain won 52%, I can't see the likes of Khan or the SNP calling for those parts of the nation that voted to Leave to do so separately. It's a rancid reductionism of politics.
When the Scots voted to stay in the UK, was there a call for those parts that voted to leave to separate?
*sighs*