2/ EU was always going to negotiate with a country that had almost no cards to play. Not even Winston Churchill as PM could change that
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3/ Now May is no Churchill. She is a weakness unto herself. And she's failed every day. But even competent PM could not make this a success
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4/ As for EU, they will negotiate with whoever is across the table. They're working now for their own people and govts, not Britain's
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5/ So idea May needed big majority to strengthen hand was always flat-out lie. EU doesn't care what her majority is. It's about UK, not her
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6/ If anything, EU wanted/wants her as strong as possible. Strong enough to negotiate with them and to sell deal at home. Right now, neither
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7/ EU's worst nightmare is a UK govt that collapses during negotiations, or futility of signing a deal that PM then can't implement
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8/ Weak PM doesn't help EU at all. What new concessions could EU extract? EU would always get all it wanted, even if Tories held every seat
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9/ And it's true EU doesn't want Johnson. That's because they hate him, not b/c they can't rip him to shreds. They would. Enthusiastically.
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10/ Some in EU feel pity for May, but she's brought fate entirely on herself. They can't help her if she won't help herself- and she won't
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11/ May staged Greek tragedy while EU stared & gasped. Hubris of 2016 conf speech/self-serving election; humiliation now of begging for help
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12/ EU won't save Tories, or UK, but also won't throw either off cliff. To reiterate: our enemy is not EU. It is, has always been, ourselves
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