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Old 26-09-2021, 15:09   #2636
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Re: Britain outside the EU

Michael Barnier's Secret Brexit Diary is being released this coming week. Other books are available and this is obviously his viewpoint, albeit he was obviously in the thick of it.

It seems to suggest that fears that Britain negotiated a bad deal were justified.
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In October 2020, David Frost cancelled negotiations and refused to resume them unless the EU publicly changed its position and recognised UK “sovereignty”. A week later he had to humiliatingly crawl back to the table. Most disastrously, the threat of a no deal fell flat. Barnier comments: “The British want us to believe that they are not afraid of a no deal”; they are playing a “game of chicken” and the EU task is to “keep our cool”.
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Finally, the EU used deadlines effectively to get its way, whereas the UK walked into a series of traps. May unnecessarily triggered Article 50, which started a two-year stopwatch, without a clear vision of what she wanted. When Davis tried to hurry Barnier up, his response was that “[Davis] is mistaken. We have time on our side”.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/My-Secret-B...rmat=1&depth=1
Guardian review: https://www.theguardian.com/books/20...itish-roasting
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