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Old 20-03-2019, 15:57   #122
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Re: Brexit (New).

Seriously, who is surprised by this? All along, a lot of remainers seem to have thought that the EU would do anything to keep us in, when the truth is we have shown ourselves to be split right down the middle over this, to the point of paralysis even when conventions like the Executive managing foreign policy and parties more-or-less following their manifestos should have provided a safety valve to ensure government could continue. May has drained all patience and political capital. The EU has said for weeks that an extension must be justified by a plan, yet the only plan she has offered is to re-run a vote she has lost spectacularly on two occasions and which Bercow now says she cannot run again.

From the perspective of the French Foreign Ministry, or anywhere else in Europe, what do they gain by granting an extension? What’s in it for them?
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