Thread by @jonworth

🇪🇺 doesn't know if a Deal is possible because 🇬🇧 hasn't yet produced a text

Once 🇬🇧 produces a text, 🇪🇺 will have to check it and propose amendments to it - because there are problems for 🇪🇺 that 🇬🇧 will not have thought of

And 🇬🇧 might quibble about 🇪🇺's amendments

🇪🇺 will further have to check this with 🇮🇪 in particular, and 🇦🇹🇧🇪🇧🇬🇭🇷🇨🇾🇨🇿🇩🇰🇪🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇷🇭🇺🇮🇹🇱🇻🇱🇹🇱🇺🇲🇹🇳🇱🇵🇱🇵🇹🇷🇴🇸🇰🇸🇮🇪🇸🇸🇪 might find objections too

And the start of the European Council - where progress is supposed to be made - is now just over 50 hours away

Also don't forget...

Withdrawal Agreement
📃📃📃📃📃
599 pages

Political Declaration
📃
26 pages

And down the road from the European Council is... the European Parliament

There the 751 MEPs have to 🗳 on it too

And then 👱🏻‍♂️ Johnson brings the 📃📃📃📃📃📃 back 🛬 to London...

And 639 MPs have to 🗳 on it... before 19 October to avoid triggering the Benn Act

The House of Commons is not going to react positively to having a metaphorical 🔫 pointed at its head "Vote this now! Or else!"

And even if the Commons *did* back the Deal in principle, the Commons and the Lords has still got to ratify the 📃📃📃📃📃📃 formally

They are going to need time to check the detail of what is in it, and whether they can OK it

There are 15 days 📅 to go until the Brexit Deadline

There is no way in the world all of this can be done in that time

Like it or not, 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇺 are heading for a further extension of the negotiation period

/ends