An anonymous British government source-spread on Monday, in a telephone conversation between Boris Johnson and Angela Merkel declaring the Brexit negotiations failed. At the presentation, there is doubt.
At the lunch, EU Council President Donald Tusk threw a Hammer in the direction of Downing Street: “Boris Johnson: What’s the issue here, is not a stupid Black-Peter-game. It comes to the future of Europe and the UK, as well as the safety and interests of our citizens. You don’t want a Deal, you don’t want the extension, you don’t want to take back the Brexit, quo vadis?” – how to go on, asked Tusk to the British Prime Minister via Twitter. So he made it clear that he considers the publications of an anonymous government employee over the phone call Johnson – Merkel for “Spin”, for a conscious twist.
An agreement is “extremely unlikely”
Behind the anonymous opinions from Downing Street, with the political correspondents in London, to be regularly supplied, plug the staff of the Prime Minister – and always with a purpose. You are so enjoy with caution. This is particularly evident when, on Monday morning, alleged statements by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone conversation with Boris Johnson, have been widely used.
You’ve made it clear that an “agreement was extremely unlikely” and that a Brexit-a Deal can only come about when Northern Ireland will be permanently in the EU customs Union and the single market remain. The EU does not have a new Position, according to which an agreement is only now, but for ever impossible, it was said in the government notice. In addition, it had become clear that the EU was “willing” to torpedo the good Friday agreement.
The Chancellor is known for its cautious formulations – has you beat Boris Johnson really the door?
Quickly doubts as to the representation on the British correspondents in Berlin, the news Agency AFP, or the BBC. Anyone who knows Angela Merkel, knows that you would not slam the door for conversations that are officially still in progress. The Chancellor is much to learn, in order to provide an occasion that allows blame to Berlin. You would hardly occur even as the Bearer of the bad tidings of the Failure of the negotiations – that is the task of the chief negotiator, Michel Barnier. The government spokesman in Berlin was, however, no German reading this, the phone call was confidential.
In addition, the attitude of the EU to the future of the legal position in Northern Ireland is not at all new: The original proposal for a “Northern Ireland only Backstop” provided that Northern Ireland would be up to a reordering of the relationship of the EU and the UK in the customs Union and the single market rules remain to cross-border trade, without checks between the two sides to maintain. The goal was to respect the good Friday agreement, the new borders that prohibits payments between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The proposal failed, however, to the resistance of Theresa may’s and Northern Ireland’s DUP.
In the afternoon, then an official government spokesman in London stated that the British negotiated among retailers, David Frost and his Team in Brussels. However, the talks were “at a critical point. The United Kingdom has moved far, now we need to see the EU move”. The phone call with Angela Merkel, had been an open exchange of views, which is, however, in the case of diplomats, “outspoken dispute”.
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The intention is abundantly clear
The Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon quickly came to the conclusion that this is the game with the blame. “The attempt of the British government to push the blame for the Brexit fiasco on everyone except themselves – today it is Merkel – is lamentable, obviously,” she wrote on Twitter.
Also the opposition MP Keir Starmer holds the indiscretions for a setup and a cynical attempt by the government to sabotage the negotiations. “Johnson will never take responsibility for the fact that he has not submitted a credible Deal.” And his colleague Tom Watson adds that the “Blame-Game”, the game to blame, just working: Boris Johnson’s use of anonymous publication, in order to bring his country a hard-Brexit to.
Even the Latvian Ambassador to the UK makes the same point: “Aha, now has begun the promised game to blame. Critical Thinking, reliable, open sources at this important time is crucial,” writes Baiba Braze.
And the spokesperson for the EU Commission said only cool that you can talk of a crash of the talks, and as long as in the Brussels negotiations between the two sides would take place. The whole story looks as if the Johnson administration wanted to tear early as possible in the interpretation of the expected failure of the talks itself.
The Minister for the preparation of the Brexit fueled the debate in the house of the fire: “We in this government are willing to compromise. We will show flexibility. We want to make a Deal. But compared to the delay – and disruption tactics of the Opposition we say in the name of 17.4 million Brexit-voters: Enough, enough, enough – we need to get out”, said Michael Gove. This is the other Front of the chosen culprit: the house of Commons, with its concerns and demands, at least for a regulated Brexit.
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What’s next?
The Parliament ended on Tuesday evening, its last session before it goes to the government Declaration of the Queen in break. It will take place next Monday with the usual Pomp of the crown, and Carriage. The Rest of the week will then be discussed, according to tradition, the featured plans of the government. Because it then goes to road construction and health care as the elephant in the room, always there, but not part of the debate is Brexit.
For the lower house this means that it only 21.October action is back to normal if we can’t somehow find loopholes in the rules. The Opposition was a vote of no confidence to be set in motion to topple Boris Johnson in good time before the Leaving date, or it needs again the help of the courts, to force him to a request for an extension to remain just ten days. This is extremely sewn close, to prevent a hard Brexit. The opponents of a hard-Brexit is running out of time in London.