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Old 27-04-2020, 16:05   #2883
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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU

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Originally Posted by jfman View Post
Gove up at the Brexit committee today.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/li...asing-lockdown



Of course he’d not want to wilfully mislead Parliament.
Of course not.

I'm sure they'd still like to stick to the timetable. The high-heid-yins of our present administration are all true believers, which is why so many people voted for them. So when the near-inevitable extension comes, there's no need to start fulminating as we (rightly, IMO) did so on the day Teresa May stood up and told parliament it was not possible for us to leave the EU on 29 March last year.

Gove can't mislead parliament and he knows full well there is a very substantial risk that the civil service's reduced capacity due to coronavirus will mean that when 'substantial progress' hasn't been made by June, there's not a snowball's chance in hell that he can reasonably blame that on EU intransigence.
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