Christ, I've never seen a people so ignorant.
I'm going to have to get this straight because I know I'm cross about something.
I'm going to have to get this straight because I know I'm cross about something.
When I see people squawking about "no deal" it looks as though nothing has registered with them for the last two years.
The only thing you're negotiating is a withdrawal agreement from the European Union. It's not a trade agreement, it's the dissolution of one. That's what these negotiations are about.
I told you not to adopt sloppy language about "deals" but you didn't listen, and you've got everyone hopelessly confused about what's going on.
Theresa May has to sign a withdrawal agreement setting out our terms of legal separation, and that agreement has to satisfy the cabinet, her party, the DUP, Sinn Fein, and the European Union including Ireland.
And I've been telling you for a year and a half, that agreement is never going to exist.
It will never exist because there is nothing acceptable to all those different parties.
It will never exist because there is nothing acceptable to all those different parties.
You talk about "deals" but it doesn't mean anything. Use the right language you might understand something.
The Article 50 process never included a new trade agreement.
