Posted: Jun 19, 2017 2:33 pm
fisherman wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:This was not offered by Barnier. Gabriel is not part of the negotiating team. Stop hanging onto people's personal opinions because that is what they are but the tory press does not realise that. Germany is not offering anything. That is why there is a negotiating team. The tory press is printing non-news.
What are you gibbering about?
You dont understand what the tory press is doing or you dont understand how negotiations work? What any foreign secretary says is not part of the negotiations. Only what Michel Barnier says matters. Just because he is German foreign secretary is neither here nor there and if his utterances are things the tory press likes to hear then it is tough shit. Merkel has no more power in these negotiations than any other leader of the 27 countries. The agenda has been agreed upon by the 27 countries.
A soft Brexit is nowhere in view first to be talked about are the three demands. Then but only then will trade talks take place based on the four freedoms. Barnier is very rigid in this and whatever the tories want is also neither here nor there.