Posted on 11/25/2016 7:04:02 AM PST by Olog-hai
Since Britain voted to leave the European Union, U.K. officials have had one message: Brexit means Brexit.
Now they have EU leaders’ reply: And it’s going to hurt.
The prime minister of Malta, whose country is about to assume the EU presidency, is the latest leader to dash Britain’s hopes of an easy divorce, signaling that the 27 other nations will drive a hard bargain.
Joseph Muscat told the BBC that “there will not be a situation when the U.K. has a better deal than it has today.”
“In the U.K. it’s fair game to bash Brussels and then you don’t need to be surprised that in Brussels they bash you back,” Muscat said in an interview broadcast Friday. “So this is a bit of Catch-22. It won’t be a case whether one side gains and the other side loses. We are all going to lose something.” …
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They’d certainly like to be irresponsible government, to abuse the term.
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