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headlines are on our side of the pond; this Guardian piece takes the fact-free framing of the Brexiteers as it's starting point:https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/06/michael-gove-accuses-eu-of-refusing-to-negotiate-new-deal …
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But, no, really..."accuses"? There are a dozen different ways to frame this that are more accurate. Some variant of "EU continues to hold fast as Gove strops" would get into the ballpark.
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The Beeb cuts out the middleman and acts as court reporter for whatever nonsense 10 Downing burps up:https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-49251257 …
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More than nanosecond of thought on either of these headlines would cause the reporters or editors to go "oooooohhhhhh....they *are* negotiating!" Meeting and failing to agree to change a prior negotiated position is not a failure to negotiate.
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There are hundreds of areas, post withdrawl agreement, that the EU has committed to negotiate on. It's only asking to get on with those *on the basis of the negotiated agreement*.
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