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Nah. That's basically what they were trying to do.
This was straight from the 'shout at Jonny Foreigner and slip him a good old British fiver.' school of poundshop holiday diplomacy.
They just cannot contemplate a world where Germany's money is better than theirs.
This was straight from the 'shout at Jonny Foreigner and slip him a good old British fiver.' school of poundshop holiday diplomacy.
They just cannot contemplate a world where Germany's money is better than theirs.
Because of course they can't. It's the underlying faith statement of Brexit. That somehow we're special and more important than everyone else
They can't reject the mindset that leads to diplomatic bullshit like this because doing so would smash the foundations of the Brexit myth
They can't reject the mindset that leads to diplomatic bullshit like this because doing so would smash the foundations of the Brexit myth
You can't negotiate as equals when your entire ideology depends on a principle of inequality.
