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John Jones's avatar

I've tragically a different view on history than you.

The groundwork for the NIP and its successor was in my view Theresa May and her faithful sidekick Don Quixote, one Oliver Robbins.

It's as well to recall that Mrs May had no strategy or plan once being allowed to invoke Article 50 - this is relatively well documented. The EU ran rings around the UK in the Withdrawal Agreement negotiations* under Robbins lead and it is alleged that Barnier's no .2 - then Sabine Weyand was applauded by EU ambassador's for getting the UK to agree such a terrible ( poor) deal in the first place.

Frost is said to have been dealt a poor hand he'd inherited quite well, aided and abbeted by an incontinent PM by the name of Boris Johnson.

* May failed abjectly to get her WA ageement with backstop ( in perpertuity) through her diminished HoC agreement with DUO, 3 times - on reflection, getting the NIP sighed as we did probably got us a pretty hard Brexit as opposed to BRINO that May & Robbins ultimately wanted.

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Gilgamech's avatar

A depressingly accurate analysis in every detail. You and I have definitely endured the same decade.

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