Hard Brexit or Hard Brexit

[Brian Peacock]

European papers give their verdict on the latest Brexit shenanigans (brexinanigans?)...

In Germany, Frankfurter Allgemeine was concerned that Europe was witnessing only the beginning of Britain’s descent into political chaos. “After an eventful Monday it looks more likely that the rebellion in the Conservative party will build momentum and a vote of confidence in their leader could become inevitable,” wrote the paper’s political correspondent Jochen Buchsteiner.

In Italy, Sergio Romano wrote in the Corrier della Sera: The British crisis is a crisis of its ruling class. But now the EU must not stoop to compromises. When the UK joined the European economic area in 1973, it wanted to extract every possible economic advantage but had no intention of subscribing to the ideals of its founders.”

In La Stampa, Francesco Guerrera wrote: “Brexit has pushed Great Britain to the centre of an ’Italian-style’ storm. A prime minister who falters, in the sights of her own party rather than the opposition, with a government on the ropes and an international credibility in tatters.”

Spain may be more consumed by the thaw in relations between Madrid and the Catalan regional government, but events in Westminster have not gone unnoticed. In a piece headlined, “A Brexit leader more by ambition than conviction”, El País’s UK correspondent reflected on Johnson’s time at the Foreign Office and how he had “unleashed or exacerbated diplomatic crises” and humiliated May.

A leader in the paper noted Johnson’s resignation, and that of Davis, has plunged May’s government into “a serious crisis whose common denominator is the prime minister’s inability to manage the most important movement in UK foreign policy in decades”.

The view was echoed by El Mundo. “As the months go by, it becomes clear just how high a price is being paid for the pig-headedness of a sector of the British political class that is hellbent on undoing a relationship that has brought Europeans prosperity and development,” said the paper. “May is creating a division between Britons that will have incalculable consequences.”

The Barcelona-based La Vanguardia was more laconic: “Great Britain has to leave the EU on 29 March 2019 and enter a transition period. Yet while May faces her most serious crisis, Brussels is still waiting for the umpteenth British proposal and both time and patience are running out.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/ ... haos-in-uk

[Rum]

Brexchosis maybe?

Boris has nobbled those two I reckon.

[cronus]

Expecting the swordmaker to fall on his sword next.

Know I shouldn't endorse Roy Harper cos he's a bad lad....but the country this deep in the shit?

[Svartalf]

Not to mention raiding, stealing women and/or raping them. I suspect the gene pool got pretty murky pretty quickly.

well, right of a first night is mostly invented, so they would have had to go straight to raping the peasant girls.

Not like the vikings who were too well groomed and stole the girls from proper saxon husbands

[Brian Peacock]

Both Tory party vice-chairs, Ben Bradley and Maria Caulfield, have also done an offski.

Opposition to May's Brexit plan grows as Tory vice-chairs quit.

I said 'both' there, but the Tory party has 8 vice-chairs, a deputy chair, and a chair. Vice chairs are paid £10,000 pa by the party.

[Hermit]

[Brian Peacock]

[rainbow]

[Svartalf]

[rainbow]

British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned there may be "no Brexit at all" because of continued attempts to undermine her plan to leave the European Union.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-07-15/t ... ll/9996052

[pErvinalia]

Is it over yet?

[Svartalf]

mmmh, is a proper reaction? Because if she does not present a reasonable and acceptable plan, the UJ is gonna be out in the cold and without the security net of agreements in less than 9 months... that would be the hardest brexit of all.

[Rum]

mmmh, is a proper reaction? Because if she does not present a reasonable and acceptable plan, the UJ is gonna be out in the cold and without the security net of agreements in less than 9 months... that would be the hardest brexit of all.

There are members of the Tory party - and the public - who want exactly that.

[Svartalf]

Show me any of those and I'll see a bunch of fools...

[Scot Dutchy]

Let them have it then.