It was an odd choice of words. As if he was at war with someone. Donald Tusk the former Polish prime minister,
now the European Council president said the EU will be "defeated" in Brexit negotiations unless it maintains absolute
unity. "If we fail it then the
negotiations will end in our defeat," he told MEPs.
I don’t recall anyone in the UK talking in
terms of victory or defeat. Indeed, Mrs
May has been saying quite the opposite. We
want a good deal that satisfies both sides.
Mr Tusk has effectively ruled out such a position. For him, victory seems to be the only way
ahead. Which more than ever is
suggesting that, if it is indeed the EU stance, no deal will indeed be better
than a bad deal for the UK. Because a
bad deal is all they want to offer to gain “victory”.
It will be a pretty Pyrrhic victory though. He and his elite colleagues will see their European
project of a single European super state still on course. Meanwhile the businesses and people in the countries
they claim to represent will be poorer, have less democratic control and be generally
in a worse place. Just think Greece.
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