The failure of the May deal shows that there isn’t enough time.
1. There are only 22 working days of the UK parliament left
2. The deal would need to pass by not only the UK parliament but the other 27 parliaments. THAT will take time
The talks which occurred from April 2017 to November 2017 were
> On the rest of the eu side:
- the diplomats heard from different countries what their constraints were, which they would agree to and which they wouldn’t
- the negotiators then prepared a baseline document for negotiating with the UK that covered the concerns of the 27 countries and gave it to the 27 countries to pass through their parliaments as “guidelines for the negotiations”
- those 27 parliaments agreed to the guidelines
- post negotiations, the finalized deal was sent to those parliaments for ratification. They all found that their red lines were met or agreeable and they all agreed
> on the eu UK side
- May sent David Davis a leading LEAVE proponent to negotiate. He was famously unprepared
- May’s government didn’t get guidelines or discuss what they would negotiate with parliament. Parliament was completely in the dark
- In November 2018 the deal was made and the UK parliament for the first time got to vote on the deal
- they rejected it.
It was just bad, bad organization on the UK’s part.
Now if the deal is to be renegotiated it can go quickly if the ONLY item is about the irish border.
But Boris hasn’t brought any concrete alternatives.
Even if he did bring up a concrete alternative and the deal is to be changed ONLY on this matter, then the new deal still needs to pass through 28 parliaments.
It doesn’t seem likely
So the other countries agreed, but May sabotaged it by sending someone that had no hand in the negotiations?