Wednesday 21 November 2018

Will Brussels give Theresa May an extra cherry to pick?

It's now in the interests of the whole European Union to hang on to Theresa May and her Brexit "deal" and give her one or may be two little extra concessions to take home to London to appease the rebelling Brexiteers. If she can return from her trip to Brussels today with something else to sweeten the draft deal she might just make it through Parliament and get the vote she and the country need. The EU negotiators would be crazy not to offer another concession because it's not in the interests of the EU or the UK if it all breaks down and we leave the EU with a no-deal. That would spell disaster for everyone. So, basically, she has to persuade the EU bosses to give up all thought of any kind of border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and to state categorically that Northern Ireland is a member of the United Kingdom full stop. If there is no acceptable language for the Ireland issue, then the Democratic Unionist Party will not vote for May and the government could fall. Surely, with all the brainpower around on either side of the Channel, it must be possible to put the right words together and in the right order to appease/please the DUP and the Brexiteer nutters. I doubt anything will appease Jacob Rees-Mogg (Squeezy-Mop) who seems determined to oust Theresa May one way or the other. I'm not sure whether the EU has sufficient imagination or magnanimity to give Theresa May a break, but if they don't, the whole house of cards could collapse. So come on, Michel Barnier and Jean-Claude Juncker, get out your magic wand and send our prime minister home with a real proper everyone-will-like agreement.

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