• How the UK lost Brexit battle
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How the UK lost Brexit battle – POLITICO The European Union set the train in motion before the result of the Brexit referendum had even been announced. It was at 6:22 a.m. on June 24, 2016 — 59 minutes before the official tally was unveiled — that the European Council sent its first “lines to take” to the national governments that make up the EU. Very useful article outlining the negotiating process between the UK and the EU, serving as, I think, a helpful refresher to remind ourselves how we've got to the current position.
It lost the battle the moment it started it.
It's possible to forget how much Theresa May fucked this process up and say "well, it was a tough job and anyone would have struggled", but just remember She activated Article 50 - something she had complete control over and could delay as long as she wanted - before determining what our negotiating position was. Having set that 2-year time limit, she then pissed away 6 weeks of it by calling an election. She then fucked up her campaign so the election replaced her stable majority government with an extremely shaky minority government, completely beholden to a political party from Northern Ireland, the country whose border arrangements are the #1 most difficult issue to resolve in the entire negotiations. The election also created a deadlocked parliament that, it was immediately clear, would probably not be able to pass any Brexit deal. Only in the closing stages of the Article 50 period did she finally set out what the UK's negotiating position was, and the EU rejected it. She eventually reached a deal with them, brought it to parliament and scheduled a vote on it, then postponed the vote by a month when it looked like she would lose. She went back to the EU to get them to change the deal, they said no, so having wasted another month of the Article 50 period, she held the vote and lost. She then got her Attorney General to write "the deal is a good deal" on a piece of paper, showed it to MPs and held the vote again and lost. She then tried to hold the vote again and got told she couldn't. She then told MPs they were stupid fucking cunts and if they didn't want her deal they would have to decide what to do instead, but also they weren't allowed to vote on any other Brexit ideas. They voted on other Brexit ideas anyway and some of them got more votes than her deal, so in response she is going to hold the vote on her deal again.
What a plonker.
Theresa May's entire Brexit management platform seems to be based around throwing landmines at her own feet over and over in the hopes one of them might launch her over the threshold and into success.
https://youtu.be/6DGNZnfKYnU but the game is brexit.
It was never going to work out, the UK is a relatively small island state compared to the powerhouse that is the EU. Their was just no way they were going to have any leverage. Ontop of this you have pompous brits who think the EU revolves around the UK. Truth is, the game was rigged from the start.
"... Well, I mean... even if it weren't, you went all-in with an offsuit 2-7, so yeah. This is still on you, all things considered."
I think it's a particularly English problem, rather than a British one. I think, for the most part, the rest of the UK has been caught up in England's ongoing identity crisis since their loss of empire - a divide along the lines of radical nationalism and radical internationalism, rather reaching consensus in a pragmatic middle ground. This article articulates that very well. https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/the-problem-with-the-english-england-doesn-t-want-to-be-just-another-member-of-a-team-1-4851882
I'm going to copy-paste this into every argument for Brexit I will find. Thanks Smurfy.
That's very much an argument that Theresa May is a bumbling blockhead as opposed to Brexit in principle.
Yup, this article is old but gold. It nails perfectly what the ongoing Brexit crisis is really about.
Can't lose a negotiation if you've lost before its even started lmao gottem
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