Why did May
ever think the EU autocracy would show her any more respect than it did Cameron?
He trotted off to Brussels in early 2016, supposedly to re-negotiate a better
deal for the UK, ahead of the referendum. He got nothing. Juncker and the rest
of the panjandrums swatted him away like some annoying street urchin.
That was before the referendum, when it would
have been easy to give Cameron at least something
to take back to the British people. Had Brussels been prepared to bend, to
offer some meaningful concession on freedom of movement, it would have been possible
to guarantee the outcome of the referendum. But it didn’t. In time-honoured EU
fashion it choose to ignore the impending deadline, confident in its belief
that Cameron and his team of prefects would deliver the correct result – and,
besides it was just a referendum, the result of which, if needs be, could be easily overturned
as had been the case in Ireland and Denmark.
So, why on
earth did May think that the panjandrums and apparatchiks were ever going to
offer her any sort of an acceptable deal that came remotely close to satisfying her hopes
for a new and mutually beneficial EU-UK relationship?
15 Jan 2019
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