Tuesday 6th August, 2019 #
- I'm curious to know how many of the UK and EU negotiators are divorcees, it might be a very useful experience to have gone through, conversely happily married and unhappily married people might actually be quite unsuited to Brexit negotiating
- The problem with a never ending trade war is that much like a bad marriage that never ends, there are a million and 1 ways that it could manifest itself...so all the trade related avenues are exhausted, well there is still education, the environment, currencies, even quite fundamental things you wouldn't expect like language and even fashion, and so so many more ways that people will feel justified to redress their grievances, and eventually you don't even remember the original reason or cause, it's just bad news - And as for the EU's claim that there is no basis for re-negotiation, that's a load of rubbish the basis for round 2 is the output of round 1, the EU can't expect a nice solution to be delivered to them all wrapped up like some sort of birthday gift, they need to sit around the table and figure it out with the UK
- EU officials: No basis for 'meaningful' UK Brexit talks
- US labels China a currency manipulator as tensions flare
- EU diplomats are saying that Boris Johnson has no intention to negotiate and wants a no deal Brexit - the fact that the EU’s main plan was a hole in one single round negotiation, and since they have repeatedly said they will not renegotiate, it very much looks like it is they that had no intention of negotiating and were angling for a no deal Brexit, they have no incentive because even if the UK doesn’t pay the settlement they will claw it back with tariffs, had they said that was their plan all along the UK could have saved a lot of money, instead they have been dragged into every possible scenario testing every detail so that if ever another country decides to leave everything will be nice and smooth, and it’s all paid for by the UK and what’s more the EU will still say it’s them that are the ones hard done by - the danger of no deal is that it could result in s never ending trade war