Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Gove says EU ‘refusing to negotiate’ on Brexit" video.
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What did the government honestly expect? the EU have made it perfectly clear for quite some time that they wont re-negotiate, it shouldn't be a surprise to anyone and that Boris and co is trying to blame the EU for that was so predictable as they are trying to deflect blame away from them but it wont work, any damage Brexit does to the UK will firmly go on our current government and I suspect Corbyn will get a lot of the blame for this as if the UK does leave the EU, all the excuses of blaming the EU for all the wrongs in the UK wont work, that blame will firmly go on the ones that pushed Brexit the hardest.
It really shows the government doesn't have any option and was banking on the EU backing down and giving the UK better terms which I always thought was unlikely, that leaves the UK with two options, hard Brexit which is unlikely because that was always considered a bluff, after all, May did a lot in the early days what Boris is doing now and it didn't work then so why should it now?
The other option is a major climb down by our government, either willingly or by force by the parliament, either way, Boris has backed him self into a corner so early on with this that he might not last very long.
At the end of the day, for a country that seems to want to leave the EU, we seem determined to get permission from the EU before we leave, Brexiteers talk about taking back control but it's clear we have none, the EU is the one with the control and it's been the case since Brexit started and all we're seeing from our government is idle threats that have no legs, the EU knows that and also knows our government is getting desperate with these tantrums.
With all that, I don't expect the UK to leave the EU later this year, we're not even close to ready and more time is likely needed which the EU will likely give..
One last thing, the harder Brexiteers push for hard Brexit, it might force the rebels to push parliament into revoking Article 50, in other words, no Brexit at all, Brexiteers need to be careful, them pushing for the hardest of Brexit is likely going to keep us in the EU which I would be over the moon if that was to happen.
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