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I understand that position. Why should everyone waste time on negotiating if there is the very real possibility that Britain backpedals and stays?
by 263919121 10y ago
I understand that position. Why should everyone waste time on negotiating if there is the very real possibility that Britain backpedals and stays?
- peteretep 10y agoThe position is easily understood, but that doesn't mean it wasn't the first salvo in negotiation.
- jacquesm 10y agoI think that from an EU perspective the first salvo was the decision to keep a referendum.
- peteretep 10y agoNobody - including the Conservatives - thought they would win a majority, and that it would have to be followed through.
- jacquesm 10y agoThere is a risk in bringing a gun to a meeting, if you start brandishing it and it goes off you can't really blame anybody but yourself. It's the summit of irresponsibility.
- lagadu 10y agoIt's non-binding, technically it doesn't have to be followed through. Regardless, it's not the EU's fault that the leaver leadership thought that political sabre-rattling would be more important than actually having a plan.