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[The Esk]

Regardless of Verhofstadt's stance on the EU, the point is that David Davies' attitude and behaviour is not what you'd expect going into the most serious negotiations the country has faced since the end of WWII.

It sends out the wrong messages, and adds fuel to the idea that we are woefully under-prepared both in terms of strategy but also the people leading any negotiations, should they happen.

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

So once again, you've waded in without bothering to do the slightest research, and then keep going on about people 'not explaining it to you'.

Double sigh.

Because it's not really the point is it?

It's about how you go about negotiating. His stance vindicates David Davis (a supposed professional) acting like a toddler?

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

@orly

Esk beat me to it.

Regardless of Verhofstadt's stance on the EU, the point is that David Davies' attitude and behaviour is not what you'd expect going into the most serious negotiations the country has faced since the end of WWII.

It sends out the wrong messages, and adds fuel to the idea that we are woefully under-prepared both in terms of strategy but also the people leading any negotiations, should they happen.

 

[peteblue]

It's a sigh-o-rama and @Pienaar's gloves is the Sighmaster

With his political, history and military knowledge he is the Sighmaster General or even a Gruppensighmaster.......

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That's quite a disgraceful thing to say, so soon after Remembrance Sunday.....

You don't think bringing it up in an online discussion to suggest a Belgian official should pipe down and know their place isn't hugely cheapening their memory?

 

[orly]

@orly

Esk beat me to it.

No, what he has 'beaten you' to is bothering to read up about the situation and the main protagonists.

 

[The Esk]

from a very small country,

What does his nationality, and the size of his nation have to do with his suitability?

 

[Pienaar's gloves]

No, what he has 'beaten you' to is bothering to read up about the situation and the main protagonists.

Regardless of Verhofstadt's stance on the EU, the point is that David Davies' attitude and behaviour is not what you'd expect going into the most serious negotiations the country has faced since the end of WWII.

I suppose it would be sounder if I faked knowledge that's not really key to the point anyway.

 

[SNova]

He looks and behaves exactly what he is, a failed politician from a very small country, with grandiose ideas that require the use of other peoples money. I'm just glad that the Eu will be stuck with him.......

He's a very unattractive man, very smug and full of himself. I feel repulsed whenever I watch his speeches in the European Parliament.

 

[peteblue]

Regardless of Verhofstadt's stance on the EU, the point is that David Davies' attitude and behaviour is not what you'd expect going into the most serious negotiations the country has faced since the end of WWII.

It sends out the wrong messages, and adds fuel to the idea that we are woefully under-prepared both in terms of strategy but also the people leading any negotiations, should they happen.

How can you ignore Verhofstadt's stance on the EU or the UK. Why do you think Juncker picked him. What is this wrong message he is sending out. I'm surprised that Davis even bothered to meet with the jumped up wally. I'd have sent Farage just to wind him up. Verhofstadt will be overridden and edged out anyway if a sensible deal is to done. While he remains then it means we are still at the lose/lose stage.......

 

[orly]

Because it's not really the point is it?

It's about how you go about negotiating. His stance vindicates David Davis (a supposed professional) acting like a toddler?

Acting like a toddler? Saying something he shouldn't have?

You slavishly slobber over Obama - again, a person you know absolutely nothing about as you've read nothing about him - and yet he once described his bowling as being suitable for the 'special olympics'.

Happens all the time. You've got Johnson (a man recognised within the FO as actually being pretty good) calling the lady who was nearly US President like 'a sadistic nurse'. These things get said.

But then, you'd know that, if you'd bother to look it up and not piggyback on other people's posts.

 

[orly]

I suppose it would be sounder if I faked knowledge that's not really key to the point anyway.

Regardless of Verhofstadt's stance on the EU, the point is that David Davies' attitude and behaviour is not what you'd expect going into the most serious negotiations the country has faced since the end of WWII.

That's opinion, not knowledge.

See?

 

[peteblue]

He's a very unattractive man, very smug and full of himself. I feel repulsed whenever I watch his speeches in the European Parliament.

He's just the other side of the coin to Farage......and at about the same level of Political experience.....

 

[tsubaki]

Then you haven't heard him speak at the European Parliament have you. The man just wants a United States of Europe and has very little time for the UK.....personally I think he will aid our exit.....

It should perhaps be pointed out that a United States of Europe would be a considerably more sensible idea than what we have now, which has managed to combine the worst features of individual nation states with the worst features of continental states. Further integration is desperately required, especially in the economic field, otherwise the problems of the Eurozone are unsurmountable and it will break up.

All of which leads one on to one of the most baffling things about the EU's reaction to Brexit - that they seem not to have noticed that us leaving makes further integration vastly more likely than it would be if we stayed in.

 

[Joey66]

Off Allo Allo

yes that did cross my mind evidently hes a Belgium who has caused a storm going to google him now!