Oh Now She’S Uncompromising. Should’Ve Done That With The Eu At The Start

[cassa333]

https://mobile.twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1015348342140866560

As was suspected, a sell out and no Brexit.

Well done. We will be a broken country in no time because she has given the EU exactly what they wanted. Free trade and alignment. But got chuff all back in financial services.

Woohoo the remainers have ruined the country. Bet their glad now.

[jim360]

They're*

[-SharonA-]

Cassa, we leavers knew this would happen. I hope we don't hear any moaning in the future!

[vetuste_ennemi]

Well spotted, Jim.

[tonyav]

I think she should resign.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Much to celebrate, then, for all advocates of a borderless world governed by a disinterested elite ("Citizens of the world" as Socrates and Jim would have it), rather than the patchwork quilt of parishes ("nations" as we used to call them), run by insular xenophobes in their local interests (a system we used to call "democracy").

Onwards and upwards.

[vetuste_ennemi]

"Cometh the hour...".

It's about the four hundred and fortieth anniversary of a speech delivered at Tilbury dock:

"I think foul scorn on Spain or any prince of Europe who dare invade the borders of my realm...".

Well, the hour's arrived.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Oops - thirtieth.

[anneasquith]

Still confusing , so does Brexit not mean Brexit now ?

[jno]

what a shame all those other brave candidates for the Tory leadership decided to cut and run.

[kvalidir]

Poison Chalice. And 'Call me Dave' is still just chilling out not in charge of the catastrophe he's caused leaving it all to the people too stupid to grasp that they are in a lose - lose situation, all scrabbling about plotting and conniving to better themselves instead of the country. Will no-one take the Tory leadership from DisMay? Will they hell. Would you?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Surprised by the docility of the hard-liners.

Maybe tactical. As this is near total surrender to Brussels, Barnier ought to be chuckling to himself and saying "oui".

But remember the Cameron "renegotiations"? The disinterested elite don't do humble, or meet you half-way, do they?

So I think this humiliating "offer" will be chucked back in DisMay's face.

[vetuste_ennemi]

...which gives the hard-liners the (Pyrrhic?) victory of "I told you so", but doesn't do much to help the nation as a whole.

Unless, of course, it could force a hard Brexit. In my view the best of all outcomes.

[vetuste_ennemi]

And then there's the "divorce settlement".

"And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!"

[vetuste_ennemi]

Cometh the hour.

We could do with a Churchill.

Or a Thatcher.

Instead we've got "Wrecks it means wrecks it".

[Jackdaw33]

Let's hope the EU acts in the UK's interest for once and tells May to stuff her deal.

[Cloverjo]

The leavers, not remainers, have ruined the country, imo. I hope they're all happy. Especially David Cameron.
I'm with Danny Dyer on his thoughts on him.

[Gromit]

2 years after the referendum result, the Government finally has a plan. We should have had an agreed position BEFORE the negotiations started.

David Davis, who this week said he opposed the plan, is still in charge and is now going to deliver the plan he opposes.

We have seen a few disfunctional Governments in the recent past, but this one really is exceptionally farcical.

[ichkeria]

The problem Gromit was that May’s unelected adviser Nick Timothy boxed her in back in 2016 with a ‘hard Brexit is Brexit’ stance from which she had been unwilling/unable to extricate herself ever since.
So a plan at last.
The ideological zealotry of some people here would shame a jihadist.

[-Talbot-]

Brussels won't accept this.

[Old_Geezer]

The leavers had tried to make this country a nation worth the title, they've ruined nothing. It's the remainers who have tried to prevent change and looks like succeeding in ruining things that have caused this present May mess. This falling between two options situation won't settle anything, the issue will remain live.