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Old 17-10-2017, 00:34   #365
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Re: Brexit discussion
This was only ever going to end one way.
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Theresa May is backing away from a Brussels showdown over Brexit this week after Angela Merkel warned her that the EU would not start discussing a transition deal with Britain until she put more money on the table.
Mrs May, who held talks with Jean-Claude Juncker, European Commission president, in Brussels on Monday night, has decided not to increase her €20bn offer to the EU ahead of a European Council meeting starting on Thursday.
Instead the scene is set for a haggle over money before the next EU summit in December. “There will probably have to be a crisis in November,” said one senior British official.
https://www.ft.com/content/8f331a3a-...8-73d59db9e399

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Originally Posted by Damien View Post
It's getting really tiresome that, the moment someone expresses an opinion against Brexit, it's 'biased'.
Totally agree. The FT had a great article today about this situation today.
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As the bleakness of Britain’s Brexit dilemma becomes more apparent, so the search for scapegoats has begun. The Brexiters’ favourite target remains the EU itself. But the Leave campaign is now also rounding on the enemy within: the British people and institutions they accuse of undermining Brexit...
The list of British institutions where the Leavers sniff treason is long and growing. They include the BBC, the civil service, the City of London, leading universities and top lawyers as well as The Economist and the Financial Times. Yet the Brexiters’ search for “saboteurs” is dangerous to their own cause. It gives off a whiff of desperation and defeat, undermining the comforting fantasy that Britain is a united country, confidently pursuing Brexit.
The saboteur hunt places the Leavers in the paradoxical situation of being arch-patriots who appear to distrust, and even detest, many of Britain’s most respected institutions. As a result, they risk turning into precisely what they accuse Remainers of being: “People who hate their own country.”
https://www.ft.com/content/524ae104-...8-73d59db9e399
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