It was Parliament that didn’t like it. The negotiators apparently did. It’s always worth having a bad cop in negotiations.....
Yes probably should have thought about that beforehand, instead of protecting her negotiating position (as if she had a clue in retrospect) etc. Again it's not that there are a 1000 ways to do this. There was/is plenty of literature available on every possible scenario - even before the U.K. decided to leave the E.U. some saw this coming and already did some experiments. It's 'just' a matter of choosing and gathering enough support, but that's quite hard if you're having to placate every hard-liner within your coalition.
In Tusk his place I would have said something similar quite a bit sooner (again an excellent job by the British press with the contentious headlines and sub-bar reporting). It's true isn't it, you basically spend years having to negotiate with idiots that don't know what they are doing. Brexit is brexit, out is out. Just clarify how so we can all continue; and or offer a feasible alternative. Plenty of other work that needs to be doing.
If you have to deal with idiots day in day out, you sometimes just snap. And let's be real here, everybody (including the Dutch PM etc.) has said something similar in more veiled terms (even you Pete). Having ever made (for a while) Boris Johnson Foreign Secretary is a far graver insult, having insulted almost every country in the world.
Besides angering the likes of Farage, Leadsom, Arlene, Wilson etc. isn't that hard tbf. Petals that can dish it out, but can't take it.
I hope Guy Verhofstadt features in the next Gilet commercial.
