FT Opinion - The EU’s approach to Britain and Brexit needs fixing
FT Opinion - The EU’s approach to Britain and Brexit needs fixing
Archive link for those of us outside the single market.
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I am British. I live in the UK etcetc
This reads like a brexiteer wrote it. Why should the EU make concessions for us? We spent decades barely working with the EU, always demanding to have a special relationship. Then this idiotic country decides to leave the union.
We are much, much smaller than the bloc. They don’t owe us shit. And things will never improve while people still demand we are treated as unique and special.
Brexiteers liked to think the EU would be losing out if britain left. Instead, they were holding a gun to our head, and pulled the trigger. The country is in tatters and somehow thats still the EUs fault?
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That's not what the opinion piece is advocating. Honestly, I'm not sure how you reached this conclusion from the article. The article is trying to say that:
- Given we are where we are how can we get to a mutually beneficial position for both the EU and the UK.
- Starmer is opening olive branches.
- The EU should seize this opportunity for it's own political benefits given the ongoing war on its borders and the prospect of a Trump White House.
This reads like a brexiteer wrote it.
You can check this yourself but the author is Mujtaba Rahman who is a political risk analyst and is managing director for Europe at Eurasia Group. Oh and he also writes for Politico.eu.. If that isn't enough for you he also:
worked at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs
Ooo that bastard Brexitier coming here stealing our jobs! shakes fist Grrrr
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Look what you made me do!
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