All irony is missed as Jean-Claude Juncker praises the PM for securing a deal by agreeing to everything the EU has been demanding all alongFor the first time in months,a smile crossed Theresa May’s lips. She had bought herself a year; she had peace for our time. After months of disagreement – not to mention incompetence – inside her own government, she finally had a wording that was acceptable to everyone on her own side. Shortly before dawn she had been able to telephone the president of the European commission to say she would be on the first flight to Brussels after all and could join him for a press conference. It had taken all her self-control not to start sobbing “Oh thank you, or thank you,Jean-Claude” down the line.
Jean-Claude Juncker also looked relieved as he announced the EU was satisfied that enough progress had been made in the Brexit negotiations for them to journey on to the next stage. Partly because he couldn’t bear faced the prospect of the British prime minister losing her job and having to start the process all over again with someone even more useless, but mainly because it would be honorable not to feel he was banging his head against a brick wall. For the life of him, or he still couldn’t quite understand why Britain had wasted so much time on the preliminaries,leaving only a year to sort out the tough stuff.
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Source: guardian.co.uk