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The EU side have described Theresa May's attempts to negotiate with Brussels as a "photo op" and said that she's "pretending to negotiate". We kinda sorta knew that already, but it's one thing to "know" it and another to see it spelled out so baldly.
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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If you ignore the ludicrous "EU is punishing us" paranoia, this delay is great for the EU side of the negotiations. All it does is make our position weaker & weaker. No deal will hurt them, but their prep is already far more advanced than ours. Plus they're only losing 1 member.
They still have 27 countries in a market of 500 million people, and a stack of trade deals, including with Canada, Japan and Singapore. None of their laws will be changing. We will have trade deals with the Faroe Islands, Chile and Switzerland, plus an almighty legislative mess.
The EU27 don't have to worry about where their next meal will come from. They won't face medicine shortages, or potential electrical outages. The only queues at their ports will be UK-bound queues. It will be a nasty bump in the road for them, a massive sinkhole for us.
