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Old 27-04-2020, 16:17   #2884
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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU

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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
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.
beg to disagree on your odds.

Robert Frost and his team are at work. The big issues are the subject of publicly stated (last week) EU intransigence.

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