There is fascinating piece in Die Welt's on-line in English in response to Mrs May's speech on Tuesday (HERE). It notes that many of her points began with "I want" and says she is blind to reality.
Far from being a conciliatory address, May's speech was a catalogue of demands topped with a dash of threat. A great many of her sentences began with: "I want."
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She wants to keep one foot in the customs union but hopes to keep the other outside -- though she didn't explain how she intends to perform this bit of gymnastics. The disadvantage of May's speech is that she has now convinced the rest of Europe beyond a shadow of a doubt that the British government isn't just nasty, but is also prepared to take the gloves off.
I am afraid that it is a frighteningly rational setting out of the view inside the EU. The threats make us look like a small time thug working a protection racket a bit like the Monty Python sketch show gangsters threatening the MoD. As the piece notes, we have opted for the path of wilful self mutilation.
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