Re: Bozo verdict
Originally Posted by
shropshiregirl
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I know Vlad, I do feel disloyal everytime I criticise Boris. I guess its the frustration of waiting for him to take a positive step instead of leaving me in limbo every time a deadline comes and then goes. 5 years is a long time to wait and with the end in sight I worry that like those before him, he is going to let us down. I will cheerfully eat humble pie and apologise if Boris tells Barnier and Co they have blown their last chance.
It's just the waiting....
But Brussels simply did not believe him. “What a load of nonsense”, said one EU official. “What was the point of that?”
The reason for the EU’s disbelief is that Johnson had given himself plenty of wriggle room.
In his statement, Johnson demanded that the EU’s chief negotiator come to London if he wanted to talk – 24 hours after Barnier had said in a press conference that he was coming to London for talks.
Downing Street was demanding a new intensity in the talks; Barnier had already offered to speed up the process in his post-summit comments.
Barnier has suggested there will be three more weeks of talks. UK sources suggest
they see 12 November as being the actual deadlineifor a deal in order for leaders to sign it off when they meet a few days later.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics...trade-analysis
Another deadline, another waiting period. Nothing new.