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David Henig
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One of the most dismal parts of Brexit is just how much oft repeated 'common wisdom' about our negotiations is wrong. Bad enough from many media and MPs, worst when it seems government doesn't know any better...
Here's government perpetuating the 'Brexit negotiations at European Council' myth. The EU might want to say that if UK proposals are not tabled by the end of the month they will move into discussions on the extension given the Benn Act...
Reminds me of the 'MPs with different views meeting the other side is wrong' myth. Interesting meeting this one, and how noticeable at how much Barnier makes himself so widely available to those in the UK and EU
Suspect Barnier and team will be wanting to suggest to Kinnock and Flint that he's very glad they want a deal, but that's not going to be a deal based on the alternative arrangements they so unwisely got dragged into endorsing
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David Henig
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Weekend Brexit analysis. Nothing happened that wasn't totally predictable and predicted.

Weekend political analysis. Good of the Labour Party to compete so energetically with the Conservatives for unelectability.
The UK currently has the politics of purity in a world of complexity and compromise. Those playing think it is winner takes all, and all means fair to achieve that. Those not playing hope for resolution of some kind. But resolution can't come without compromise.
However UK must simultaneously find compromises within two main parties, in Northern Ireland, and with our neighbours, which might just be too much for any country to cope with in a short time. The challenge is that non partisans are attacked from all sides even for this analysis
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David Henig
@DavidHenigUK
Two months ago Boris Johnson said he wouldn't talk with the EU until they dropped the backstop. As realistic as the Commission saying they wouldn't reopen the Withdrawal Agreement.

The EU will always talk. But they won't back down on their Ireland red lines.
And the simple response to the UK Government - if your proposals were so good why have you kept them secret from EU Member States and your own MPs?

Same old failure to understand borders and wishful thinking the EU will back down
Mildly reassuring that the UK Government knows the EU side leaks. But it does that particularly when negotiating partners have unrealistic expectations, happens rather less when things are going well.
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David Henig
@DavidHenigUK
So of course we're already party to a trade agreement with Japan, which the Japanese have refused to replicate in the case of a no-deal Brexit, either to encourage us to make a deal with the EU, or because they want more concessions from us. None of this mentioned...
There's a new call for evidence on what we'd want from a Japan trade agreement, as there was for US, Australia, NZ last year. Most responses saying they wanted to prioritise the EU relationship, but there we go...
Biggest problem, as I say here, is that we've now prioritised trade agreements with the US, New Zealand, Australia and Japan. Plus presumably the EU. Which really isn't deliverable in quick time, even if you knew what you wanted, which we don't.... ft.com/content/b6a047…
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And we're off. Govt motion #2 for a General Election. Boris out of the gate with a reference to the Speaker always acting in what the *Speaker* judges to be in the National Interest. In Parliamentary terms, that's a low blow.
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