Giving up control

[Platypus]

I am. I'm sitting on the terrace at home in beautiful sunlight with a coffee and my laptop planning my next business excursion within the EU using my freedom of movement to work anywhere there

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[darmstadt]

Yes, do or die.

Ah yes, from the poem: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson honoring Britain’s defeat at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, during the Crimean War. - The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Poetry Foundation

“Theirs not to reason why / Theirs but to do and die / Into the valley of Death / Rode the six hundred.”

As it happens, it is also the denouement of Robert Burns’s ode to Robert the Bruce and the Scottish victory over the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314:

“Lay the proud usurpers low! / Tyrants fall in every foe! / Liberty’s in every blow! / Let us do or die!”

Johnson ****ed that one up didn't he?

[Zigenare]

Ah yes, from the poem: The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson honoring Britain’s defeat at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, during the Crimean War. - The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Poetry Foundation



As it happens, it is also the denouement of Robert Burns’s ode to Robert the Bruce and the Scottish victory over the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314:



Johnson ****ed that one up didn't he?

In what way? How else would you emphasise your commitment?

I suppose he could take a leaf out of your book, "It's too difficult, I'm going to give up".

[darmstadt]

In what way? How else would you emphasise your commitment?

I suppose he could take a leaf out of your book, "It's too difficult, I'm going to give up".

Sorry I triggered you, now calm down

[Zigenare]

Sorry I triggered you, now calm down

Triggered? Hardly. Keep trying though, wouldn't want you to give up. "Do or Die", you know the score.

[Mordac]

Giving up control? Kinda assumes they had control in the first place.

Oh, you spotted that. No, we were never "in control", hence the "we're leaving" thing.

[scooterscot]

Oh, you spotted that. No, we were never "in control", hence the "we're leaving" thing.

So this is what a strong and stable government looks like...

[Zigenare]

So this is what a strong and stable government looks like...

Yep, we go toe-to-toe with the rest of the EU to try and negotiate a deal that is acceptable, on the understanding that if we don't work out a deal we're leaving anyway.

An approach that should've been used by Theresa May but what do you expect when you ask a whinging remainer with no balls, figuratively speaking, to do the job!

[scooterscot]

Yep, we go toe-to-toe with the rest of the EU to try and negotiate a deal that is acceptable, on the understanding that if we don't work out a deal we're leaving anyway.

You've said that before. And again and again. It's like the divorcée turned bunny boiler.

[CryingSheep]

Yep, we go toe-to-toe with the rest of the EU to try and negotiate a deal that is acceptable, on the understanding that if we don't work out a deal we're leaving anyway.

An approach that should've been used by Theresa May but what do you expect when you ask a whinging remainer with no balls, figuratively speaking, to do the job!

And what makes you believe that threatening with 'we leave without a deal if we don't get the deal we want' works as any kind of leverage on the negotiations with the EU?