Brexers prepare their excuses for failure

[JohnD]

"Theresa May seems to be heading for defeat on her Brexit deal in the Commons on Tuesday. One sign of how desperate the PM is getting is that she and her ministers are already pinning the blame on the EU for impending failure.

As the FT reports, talks between the EU and UK over revising the current deal are deadlocked. Britain wants changes to the Irish backstop, the issue that worries hard Brexiter Conservatives. The EU has made counterproposals, based on legal reassurances — but these fall far short of UK demands."

We must remember that the Irish Border shambles is a problem of Theresa's own making. By unsuccessfully attempting to appease the Brextremist Fundamentalists, she insisted that there must be a hard border between UK and EU, but not between NI (which is part of the UK) and RoI (which is part of the EU). This is impossible.

There is no solution to the Brexers' insane demands. They know that. That's why the backstop is necessary. If they had a solution, the backstop would not arise. They know that.

The Brexers' intransigence in demanding the impossible is why they can never be satisfied. They know that.

Theresa's government has repeatedly agreed to the backstop, now they want to renege on their agreement they are trying to pin the blame elsewhere.

 

[JohnD]

"The mood is therefore getting ugly.

In a speech in Grimsby today, Mrs May sounded a stern warning. “The decisions that the European Union makes over the next few days will have a big impact on the outcome of the vote,” she declared.

Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt, in an interview on the Today programme, went further. He said relations with the EU will be “poisoned for many years to come” if Brussels fails to budge in the Brexit talks.

“Frankly,” he added, “I think future generations, if this ends in acrimony, people will say the EU got this wrong, and I really hope they don’t.”

The EU side finds this aggressive tone infuriating. As ITV’s Robert Peston writes, Mr Hunt’s comments are “a million miles” from how EU diplomats see the current state of negotiations: “The EU sees itself not as intransigent but as being as flexible as it can be, subject to not opening the Withdrawal Agreement, to get the deal over the line.”

Lord Peter Ricketts, the former head of the UK Foreign Office, is particularly critical of the foreign secretary’s comments. “Mr Hunt is making a big mistake if he thinks this transparent blame game is going to change any minds in Europe,” he tweets. “The UK did this to ourselves and only has itself to blame. That will be history’s verdict.”"

 

[ban-all-sheds]

The Brexers' intransigence in demanding the impossible is why they can never be satisfied.

And why, as is often said, they won't take yes for an answer.