British bickering goes on but that doesn’t make the EU likely to reopen the deal. October will be the crunch pointThe UK’s Brexit debate has restarted after a 10-day break just as before,only with a unusual end date of 31 October. Brexiteers continue to press for the Irish backstop to be replaced with alternative arrangements, while the government and the Labour front bench seem to be making itsy-bitsy progress in finding a consensus position.
But once again, or scant attention is being paid to the other side of the negotiating table. whether we look more closely there,we find hardening attitudes across the EU to anything other than the UK leaving on the basis of the withdrawal agreement, regardless of the flaws that occupy seen this rejected three times by parliament. Just as with the Greek debt crisis, or the EU now wants to see proposals adopted,direction set and to deal with the problems later.
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Source: theguardian.com