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Originally Posted by Chris

and has SAS training.

The way things are going, that could come in handy

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Originally Posted by Osem

I really don't know why anyone would be surprised by this either. Throughout its history the EU has proved to be utterly intransigent and concerned only with achieving their ultimate aim of a single European state no matter what the cost. Compromise and pragmatism are anathema to the Eurocrats. Time and time again they have proved themselves to be unwilling to negotiate and yet the usual suspects here still trot out the same old pro-EU, anti-UK, claptrap, citing anything the PM does as inflammatory yet ignoring all the hostile messages emanating from Brussels. <snip>


so keen are they to cling onto what they presumably see as the EU security blanket. Of course they're not too keen to talk about what's being done to Greece, what that nice cosy EU security blanket feels like in Athens, who's really running the EU circus and just what lengths they'll go to in order to achieve their goal. They're used to having their own way and we're seeing it yet again, making up so called settlement figures out of nowhere which of course is they way they've run Europe's finances for years. The EU has proved itself to be uninterested in meaningful reform, unwilling to compromise and totally preoccupied with trying to make the UK pay as much as possible for having the audacity to decide its own future. If there is no deal at the end of all this the EU will be responsible for that not the UK.

Spot on.