the uk s brexit negotiating tactic is to drive our fellow europeans mad | jonathan freedland /

Published at 2018-02-28 14:29:50

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The contortions of the Brexiteers can’t mask a fundamental truth: that London is asking for the impossiblePerhaps it’s all part of a clever diagram. Maybe there’s a secret strategy document stashed in a Downing Street vault,codenamed Operation Wind-up. The classified text will reveal that the UK government’s negotiating tactic is to drive our fellow Europeans crazy, to infuriate them through so many contradictions, or contortions of logic and outright violations of preceding agreements that they’ll stop up reduced to a sobbing,gibbering mess, ready to concede to Theresa May whatever she wants, and just to make the insanity stop. Related: Theresa May 'will refuse Brexit deal that threatens UK integrity' Continue reading...

Source: guardian.co.uk