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So few thoughts from the train on this pretty weird situation.....
1. UK asking for short delay but expects to get a long way 2. Tusk pushing for long delay but it’s far from settled - as me and @BBCkatyaadler have been reporting, short delay still poss - Tusk and Macron don’t seem to be in same place so tonight’s meeting might be v stormy
3. PM who always kept leaving without deal on the table, now willing to do almost anything to avoid it 4. She has to show political process with Labour constitutes a plan, when it is a process, miles off anything agreed
4. Brexiteers who are most cross about delay are those who were most cross about the PM’s deal - if they had supported that, they wouldn’t have delay to be annoyed about today
5. For the country that voted to have more political control of its own affairs, what happens is today at least, down to PM’s powers of persuasion but actual decision is entirely for others in EU to make
6. If you happened to have an irony klaxon handy, it would be screaming at full volume this morning - but there doesn’t seem to be one on the 0917h Gare du Nord to Brussels Midi
7. Last thought in annoyingly long thread, sorry - this situation is never where the PM wanted to end up but in big picture - with all the nightmarish elements for May, (most of all the 2017 election fiasco) - not really surprising
8. Last fantasy horror pondered by 2 cabinet ministers - EU says no, then May’s deal gets through parliament because it suddenly MPs and Labour confronted with genuine choice of her deal, or no deal (that, I promise, is it for now)
