I like this. “The lesson for Britain’s next negotiation (EU) is also…timing”. Michel Barnier was interviewed the other day and seemed almost too benign in what we could get out of any re-entry negs. I found it all quite implausible. Keep the pound, no problem. Want a budgetary rebate, yeah, how much! I cannot imagine a worse time to begin such an exercise; yet knowing our politicians, that may well happen. Just as peace though strength, we also have a concept of negotiation through (relative) strength.
Just very difficult to rejoin without political consensus on doing so. Why would the EU seriously entertain negotiations with the two parties of the Right bloc both vehemently opposed?
I like this. “The lesson for Britain’s next negotiation (EU) is also…timing”. Michel Barnier was interviewed the other day and seemed almost too benign in what we could get out of any re-entry negs. I found it all quite implausible. Keep the pound, no problem. Want a budgetary rebate, yeah, how much! I cannot imagine a worse time to begin such an exercise; yet knowing our politicians, that may well happen. Just as peace though strength, we also have a concept of negotiation through (relative) strength.
Just very difficult to rejoin without political consensus on doing so. Why would the EU seriously entertain negotiations with the two parties of the Right bloc both vehemently opposed?