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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Boris’s guvmin has been told by the EU that there’s nothing to talk about.
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You forgot to add the important part that Johnson told the EU that he will not talk to them unless the backstop is removed:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...scrap-backstop
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Boris Johnson is refusing to sit down for talks with EU leaders until they agree to ditch the Irish backstop from the Brexit withdrawal agreement, despite invitations to meetings from the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and the French president, Emmanuel Macron.
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In fact, the Leavers pulling Johnson's strings are quite brazen about it:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...enario-eu-told
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Boris Johnson has no intention of renegotiating the withdrawal agreement and a no-deal Brexit is his “central scenario”, European diplomats have been told, amid hardening evidence in Westminster that the government is expecting to crash out of the EU.
Brussels diplomats briefed after a meeting between the prime minister’s chief envoy and senior EU figures in Brussels said that Britain’s refusal to compromise was understood to have been clear to those attending.
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This whole deal spin is just a sham. Those who control the PM just want the ruinous No Deal. Nothing else. In fact the ERG are quite open about it:
Mark Francois says ERG will vote down Withdrawal Agreement even if Boris Johnson gets rid of the backstop
So even if the EU cave in which is unlikely, the ERG would impose their vision of hell on this country.