Quote from: döm on April 03, 2017, 00:54:59 am
Meanwhile The Observer is as ever bang on the button...
https://www.theguardian.com/global/2017/apr/01/brexit-may-merkel-eu-talks-davis?CMP=fb_gu
Utterly laughable piece; the worst sort of gutter journalism. Just read this:
It has become crystal clear that not only will the EU set the agenda for the exit talks, it will also control their pace, parameters and conclusions - or else, no deal at all. It will be the EU, not Britain, that decides when "sufficient progress" has been made to allow talks on trade to commence. It will be the EU that sets the terms governing the transition needed to avoid the cliff edge so feared by business. And it will be the EU that decides whether Britain has paid its dues. Nobody in last year's Leave campaign talked about a leaving bill of up to £50bn. They will have to now if they want to make progress.
Sheer, grovelling, anti-British cowardice. It overlooks, conveniently, because the ignorant, craven filth at the
Observer couldn't bear to support their own country, that Britain has cards to play in these negotiations. We do not simply have to let them dictate to us. In the end, we don't even need to have a deal with them at all, something some of the EU countries know will greatly be to their detriment. And how's this for hypocrisy?
After months of mostly placatory, regretful statements, the EU is talking tough. Who can blame them? They want to protect themselves and their citizens.Of course, protecting British interests and citizens in similar tough terms is "unsavoury" two paragraphs above, and "fanatical" three paragraphs above.
These people would have published no end of "sorry, Mr Hitler won't stand for that" articles in the 1930s.