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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
Theresa May said that the specific detail needed to be worked out, but as I said, this is a negotiation. When you are conducting negotiations, you leave certain doors ajar so that there is wriggle room and neither side gets entrenched with one particular solution.
People are angry because this has taken a long time and they still cannot work out how this will be implemented. However, by October, there will be clarity.
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OB, less of the Faith & Hope! Let's just be practical here: Mrs May came up with a concrete plan. A plan that will square the circle of trade with the EU. A plan, by definition, has to be workable in the real world else it is not a plan, it is just a claim. If Mrs May is selling the Chequers plan, it has to work. It really is as simple as that.
I have to admire your faith in the PM. I mean saying that "specific detail needed to be worked out" with the "specific detail" being whether is is workable or not, is madness.
Imagine:
UK: Here's my plan I have been working on for 2 yrs, it is the best we can do and it can work. What do you think?
EU: Thanks, lots of pages, nice ... One thing, can you show us how the trade revenues will be collected? Just a simple, basic example will do, nothing tricky. Just something to demonstrate what you have in mind. You know, a worked example for illustration ..
UK: Ah .. though you might ask us that. Well, I cannot give you an actual worked example because we haven't got that far. But as an idea, what do you think? Can we just tick this one off?
EU: Nice try .. more cake?