EU Brexit negotiators were left “flabbergasted” after their British counterparts launched a legal deconstruction of the so-called “Brexit bill” Wednesday as the Brussels talks headed for an increasingly acrimonious impasse, EU sources have told The Telegraph.
Flabbergasted, eh? Well, what did they expect us to do? Just walk in without preparing? Clearly so, it seems.
British negotiators spent three hours launching a painstaking, line-by-line rebuttal of the EU’s demands for €100bn divorce settlement to the barely concealed fury of EU negotiators.
“There was total amazement,” the EU source said, “Everyone was completely flabbergasted that this young man from Whitehall was saying that the EU’s preparation on the financial settlement was ‘inadequate’. It did not go down well.”
That’s what happens when you underestimate the people across the table and fail to prepare your case. All that bullshit about David Davis not having piles of paperwork in-front of him and now they are left floundering – or flabbergasted. Davis’ team have played a blinder. Well done to them and it gave me a smile this morning.
I would have added that we will further consider the EU’s demands for 100 billion settlement when the EU accounts have been audited to our satisfaction. Apparently this hasn’t been satisfactorily managed in nearly 20 years.
This is the basic problem with the EU hierarchy – so full of their supposed infallibility all above all, considering Barnier is their chief negotiator – their arrogant hauteur. Typically enough, it’s a french word.
Fortunately I don’t have a say in the negotiations, because I’d just tell ’em to stick it where the sun don’t shine.
“British negotiators spent three hours launching a painstaking, line-by-line rebuttal of the EU’s demands for €100bn divorce settlement to the barely concealed fury of EU negotiators.”
Can you buy tickets to watch the likes of Juncker being reduced to impotent fury, or is there a video feed of the negotiations? God knows it would be better than most TV nowadays. Thrills, spills and spluttering bureaucrats. I’d pay.
Actually it’s 150% bullshit on both sides.
Which is both pathetic & disturbing.
Can’t these wankers, on both sodes, get their acts together?
I can only suggest they use the line so well-used back in 1987 by young Emily Lloyd in Wish you were here:- “Up yer bum!”
‘Flabbergasted’? Surely you have got this wrong? The BBC told me that the EU walked all over the UK’s team, (who don’t know what they are doing).
As the BBC says the only ‘sensible’ option is to pay whatever the EU asks for, accept EU law in all things and beg to be some sort of no-voice associate member of the glorious reich.
Surely ‘the world’s most trusted broadcaster’ can’t be wrong?
Heh!
I laughed like a drain too. Their 4 pages of rubbish were…..rubbished. They have over egged the pudding with knobs on. They are so used to EU states caving in and giving up that when one tells them to go away in fluent Anglo-Saxon, they just cannot fathom it. They are trying to steal our taxes to shore up their budgets for a few years after we leave and we have said “NO!”. Good.