of the talks - rather than their collapse - as a great victory for @BorisJohnson is classic Govian spin. That intensification was inevitable. Johnson's "walk out" was theatre. The real deadline for the talks is 15 November, because any later and ratification becomes impossible...
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The point is that there has been much more progress towards agreement than
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disruption to UK trade and a hit to the economy even if there is a deal, and it may be better politics for Johnson to blame the EU for that economic damage rather than concede that leaving the single market was always going to bring costs.
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So Robert, you're saying
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"Mob"??? Language matters! You are better than this!
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Oh imagine if we had an honest government. P.S No need for the ‘mob’ comment. It’s our Gov that are acting like the ‘mob’!
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'Mob' - weren't you interested in being(taken for) a serious journalist, once ?
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Horrendous bias...the broadcast tonight, complete with mocking laughter, was utterly disgraceful for a supposedly neutral journalist tbh
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"a mob of EU officials proving your bias & prejudices again Mr Peston.
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Read his whole thread. Unfortunate choice of word but seems to me Peston May be calling it right Re Govian spin and Bozo’s (or Cummings) “thought process”
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