The strong and stable leadership appears to be going well. At least other countries are starting to pity the UK. Maybe they'll start pulling together an aid package. Once the bar bill is settled, of course.
https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2017/...xit-embassies/
https://www.rte.ie/news/brexit/2017/...xit-embassies/
An internal report by the Department of Foreign Affairs, based on an extensive round of meetings between senior Irish diplomatic figures and European government officials, has painted a negative and deeply unflattering picture of Britain's performance in the Brexit negotiations.
The confidential report, seen by RTÉ News, quotes senior EU figures as being alarmed by "chaos in the Conservative government", with British ministers and civil servants unable to agree a coherent policy on Brexit.
The report says there are significant concerns across European capitals that it will be difficult to break the deadlock in the negotiations ahead of the December summit.
The paper is a digest of a series of political reports filed by Irish embassies across the EU back to the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin.
They were drawn up in early November and reflected detailed accounts of meetings between Irish diplomatic staff and ministers and officials in ten EU member states.
While some member states had their own particular concerns over Brexit, the overall picture is one of dismay in European capitals at what is seen as chaos in the Conservative government.
French officials described a dinner between David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, and the French Defence and European Affairs ministers in Paris on 23 October.
Despite having flagged up the meeting to the media in advance as an attempt to unblock French resistance to Britain moving into trade negotiations, Mr Davis barely mentioned Brexit according to French officials.
A Czech minister said he felt sorry for British ambassadors trying to communicate a coherent message across the EU on Brexit when there was "political confusion at home".
Most damning of all were the reported comments of Britain's judge at the European Court of Justice Ian Forrester as he bemoaned the quality of politicians at Westminster.
He said that despite considerable contact between himself and London, only one person he had spoken to had any real grasp of the complexities involved.
He even wondered if it might dawn on people what leaving the EU actually entailed and there might be a slow realisation that this was just a great mistake.
The confidential report, seen by RTÉ News, quotes senior EU figures as being alarmed by "chaos in the Conservative government", with British ministers and civil servants unable to agree a coherent policy on Brexit.
The report says there are significant concerns across European capitals that it will be difficult to break the deadlock in the negotiations ahead of the December summit.
The paper is a digest of a series of political reports filed by Irish embassies across the EU back to the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin.
They were drawn up in early November and reflected detailed accounts of meetings between Irish diplomatic staff and ministers and officials in ten EU member states.
While some member states had their own particular concerns over Brexit, the overall picture is one of dismay in European capitals at what is seen as chaos in the Conservative government.
French officials described a dinner between David Davis, the Brexit Secretary, and the French Defence and European Affairs ministers in Paris on 23 October.
Despite having flagged up the meeting to the media in advance as an attempt to unblock French resistance to Britain moving into trade negotiations, Mr Davis barely mentioned Brexit according to French officials.
A Czech minister said he felt sorry for British ambassadors trying to communicate a coherent message across the EU on Brexit when there was "political confusion at home".
Most damning of all were the reported comments of Britain's judge at the European Court of Justice Ian Forrester as he bemoaned the quality of politicians at Westminster.
He said that despite considerable contact between himself and London, only one person he had spoken to had any real grasp of the complexities involved.
He even wondered if it might dawn on people what leaving the EU actually entailed and there might be a slow realisation that this was just a great mistake.
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