Brexit: ‘Make me an offer’ says May – but nobody wants to talk with her
This is how we should all treat Theresa May.
Theresa May’s week has not started in a very intelligent way, has it?
Not only is she facing rebellion from all sides at home, thanks to her hopeless mismanagement of her own party, as described in This Site’s earlier article…
Not only has a report shown that the UK will be worse off after Brexit, no matter what we do with it…
The government’s new analysis of the impact of Brexit says the UK would be worse off outside the European Union under every scenario modelled.
The assessment, which is titled “EU Exit Analysis – Cross Whitehall Briefing” and dated January 2018, looked at three of the most plausible Brexit scenarios based on existing EU arrangements.
Under a comprehensive free trade agreement with the EU, UK growth would be 5% lower over the next 15 years compared to current forecasts, according to the analysis.
The “no deal” scenario, which would see the UK revert to World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, would reduce growth by 8% over that period. The softest Brexit option of continued single-market access through membership of the European Economic Area would, in the longer term, still lower growth by 2%.
These calculations do not take into account any short-term hits to the economy from Brexit, such as the cost of adjusting the economy to new customs arrangements.
Not only did the EU take just two minutes deciding what it was going to offer the UK in the next round of Brexit negotiations…
The European Union’s 27 remaining countries have formally agreed on the terms they will offer Britain for its Brexit transition period.
The negotiating guidelines were agreed by the member states after only a two minute discussion, the European Commission’s deputy chief negotiator Sabine Weyand said on Monday afternoon.
The decision was made at a meeting of the EU’s general affairs council in Brussels, which the UK did not attend – as is convention for decisions regarding Brexit.
Not only did Angela Merkel expose Mrs May to ridicule over her negotiating technique (what negotiating technique?)…
Angela Merkel reportedly left journalists “laughing uproariously” after mocking Theresa May‘s attempts to negotiate a trading relationship post-Brexit.
The German chancellor said she had been trapped in a recurring conversation with the British Prime Minister since the EU referendum in 2016.
Speaking to a “secret” press meeting at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ms Merkel claimed Ms May had repeatedly asked her to “make me an offer”, according to a report by ITV political pundit Robert Peston.
Ms Merkel said that when she replied “but you’re leaving – we don’t have to make you an offer. Come on what do you want?”, Ms May replied again, “Make me an offer.”
“And so, according to Mrs Merkel, the two find themselves trapped in a recurring loop of ‘what do you want?’ and ‘make me an offer’,” Mr Peston wrote on his Facebook page.
But it turns out Gibraltar can veto any final deal!
The chief minister of Gibraltar has said he is ready to veto parts of the Brexit deal agreed by Theresa May if it does not work in the territory’s favour.
Speaking exclusively to The Independent, Fabian Picardo said he would not accept anything in the deal that was detrimental to Gibraltar’s business or social care systems.
Mr Picardo, who presides over a region that delivered the highest Remain vote – 96 per cent – of anywhere in the EU referendum, also called for a second vote on the final terms of any Brexit agreement.
Of course he wants a second vote. He knows Brexit is insanity – and so do we, after the report mentioned above.
But Tories don’t want to allow it because refusal would ruin their plans to take away what’s left of our rights and property.
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A shambles of a government and a bunch of corrupt and inept characters at the head of it. It is unbelievable that a few reactionaries are being allowed to drag this country into such a disaster, just because they want to try to turn the clock back half a century.
I think the Tories had it right when they took us into the EEC. after promising us a vote, they decided that they could not trust the population to use the vote in the way they wanted us to (That is: Join,) so they took us in without a vote. Right wing democracy at it’s finest! Now we are at eight years of Austerity, they are looking to stamp out the final few protective rights the lower people (Us, not them!) have remaining. Wake up English people, the fat cats are robbing you all blind!!! And of course, they are probably just about ready to throw a few million British uniforms onto the decent young men of the mass population and take the living standards all the way back to 1910! (No vote for people who do not own their own house, the wonders of the 5/- pension (Ha! They won’t live long enough to get paid it anyway! Etc. Etc.