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How can a serious newspaper frame a set of demands that are unachievable as "peace terms"? May will not get the EU to bend on any of them. Usually setting out demands that an adversary cannot achieve is a pretext for a fight.
Throughout the ERG has attempted to present demands that are considered utterly unacceptable by the EU as utterly reasonable common sense to the UK public. This is a messaging game that merely delays inevitable UK acceptance of all EU conditions.
If the UK does not revoke Art. 50, its parliament either votes for a variant of May's Agreement with the backstop and possibly quite long transition where the UK state enforces EU laws it has no control over, or it ends up in a No Deal position of total dependence on EU goodwill.
No Deal is not an end state. For the UK to sustain basic trade and logistics with neighbours it will need to conform to every whim and twitch of an EU that can choose to use dozens of pressure points.
A UK negotiating with the EU in a No Deal scenario will be rolled easily
A UK negotiating with the EU in a No Deal scenario will be rolled easily
Three years into this and key UK media milieus still have not come to terms with the vast extent of EU hegemonic power in Europe.
Again and again for a society so obsessed with great power status many in the UK are weirdly naive about the realities of geopolitical power.
Again and again for a society so obsessed with great power status many in the UK are weirdly naive about the realities of geopolitical power.
