May-Juncker Dinner

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May-Juncker Dinner

British PM meets with EU Commission President at Downing Street

Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May and Brexit Secretary David Davis had dinner the other day with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and discussed Britain's departure from the EU. According to sources from both Brussels and Downing Street, the meeting did not go well with 'disaster' being used to describe talks.

Theresa May holds firm on no Brexit divorce payout until EU confirms trade deal terms: "Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed" #Marr

— Tom Newton Dunn (@tnewtondunn) April 30, 2017

Apparently Juncker believes chances of no deal being over fifty percent.

Excellent, if you ask me. I want them to be awkward. Once negotiations start and they're demanding huge sums of money, it'll rally the Great British public against these chancers and if we leave with no deal then so what? I've read calculations that on WTO tariffs terms (which is what we'd trade with the EU on if we abruptly left) would cost us something like £4bn a year - so that's already a saving in itself on what we pay the EU annually let alone this absurd £60bn figure they've come up with.

You never know, if they're completely awkward we might be out by the end of the year. Suits me.

[FlyingJesus]

The entirety of these claims are from a single paper in Germany, so even if they somehow have had access to the dinner it's people who stand to lose a lot once we're gone. May is absolute right in saying there's no legal reason for us to pay an enormous amount to leave the EU, and if we're talking law then what Juncker is doing amounts to blackmail and extortion - demanding huge amounts of money "or else". That said, she isn't saying that we won't pay out anyway, only that we won't until the trade deals are sorted, which makes complete sense. You don't give someone your car on the basis that they might possibly let you rent their bike in future

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The EU now says the UK's Brexit 'bill' will be €100bn – even more than the €60bn previously estimated https://t.co/3O9lwgdomv

— Financial Times (@FT) May 2, 2017

What Galaxy are we in? What Universe are they in?

Thankfully nowadays we can say...