🏴☠️It turns out that throughout the #Brexit discussions with the British government, the EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, was keeping a diary. That he managed to do this at the end of days of usually frustrating talks says something for Barnier’s staying power... 
His diary has been published in France. Surprise, surprise: with one or two exceptions, the British side does not come too well out of what our football commentators would call “the Frenchman’s” reflections...
https://twitter.com/MichelBarnier/status/1390179876595027969?s=20
From the moment our first secretary for Brexit, my old friend David Davis, turned up in Brussels armed with a few pieces of paper, and faced Barnier’s heavily prepared team, carrying volumes of material...
the EU had the upper hand and, for all we know, Davis’s negotiating paper could have been a copy of the Times crossword. It has been abundantly clear ever since that, unlike Chelsea and Manchester City, the British team representing Theresa May...
then one Boris Johnson was never in the Champions League. As for Lord Frost, I think he ranks way below my team, AFC Wimbledon. Is #Brexit done? Like hell has it been done...
Brexit is unravelling all over the place. British fishing crews are being told at Calais that they can keep the fish over which they have regained control, as the blockades go up. Now that we have “regained control”, that we need more immigrants to fill the gaps in the labour...
The fact that complaints about immigration were among the factors contributing to the Brexit vote is neither here nor there. The Cummings/Johnson/Gove campaign was always nonsense; but, alas, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, you could fool some of the people some of the time...
The zealots who fooled far too many of the people did not even understand the consequences of their great “victory”. Source @guardian
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