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I would just like to note that March 25th (Saturday) is the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which created the European Economic Community (from which th
by cstross 10y ago
I would just like to note that March 25th (Saturday) is the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome, which created the European Economic Community (from which the EU evolved):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Rome
Imagine serving divorce papers on your spouse on a significant wedding anniversary, and now consider the message it sends.
It's like Theresa May has carefully picked the time to trigger Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty that will cause maximum offense to the people she's about to negotiate a critically important trade deal with (from a position of inferior leverage).
- Von_Jones 10y agoTheresa May is a copper-bottomed cvnt. She is apparently steering Britain into a hard-Brexit for the sole reason of preserving the Conservative party. She cannot even issue a pronouncement on what form Brexit will take, or call an election which will require a manifesto setting out her position, because the party will implode. What a way to run a country: all to keep a bunch of bastards in blazers from throttling each other.
- dang 10y agoWe've banned this account for repeatedly violating the HN guidelines.
- corford 10y agoIn her defence (not that she really deserves it), Theresa May was fucked either way by setting March as the deadline. The sad part is I'm sure it was incompetence rather than a calculated slight.
- moomin 10y agoGrey's law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
- waqf 10y agoWasn't the Treaty of Rome the one that de Gaulle successfully lobbied to keep the UK out of? I'm no Brexiteer but this seems entirely appropriate.
- OJFord 10y agoq.v. earlier analysis, the filing's been delayed precisely to avoid this and other anniversaries.