StuartO Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Theresa May seems to be playing things well on the EU stage at the moment, emphasising that the UK wants a good relationship with the EU and offering to bridge communications with Trump, because she has met him. Being the nice guy like this must take some doing when she’s getting rebuffed but hopefully this will change sooner or later. But the signals from the EU heavies at the moment are far from encouraging - they seem to be determined to do their own thing (and to sideline the UK as far as possible from EU politics) while preparing to rub UK’s nose in Brexit by one means or another. The UK must be made to pay and must end up worse off for Brexit because they have broken ranks, that sort of thing. How much of this is the EU politicians trying to hang on to their own personal power base and their personal vision of EU’s future (eg preserving the grip of the EU bureaucracy, even if it is corrupt) community values rather than the necessary EU pragmatism remains to be seen. The EU is facing difficulties which Brexit will exacerbate so it would be nice to see more pragmatic (and less self-serving) behaviour from EU politicians. The pressure on the EU from Trump will certainly not be helping, even if they want to pretend they are above being leaned on by America. Our PM has limited scope for progress with the current set of leading EU politicians, so playing it as she’s doing is necessary for the time being. Fortunately the UK side of things (eg voting for Article 50 without strings) has been going well. It will be important to see some EU countries breaking cover and saying they also want a good post-Brexit relationship with UK and I think that will happen as Hollande disappears etc. So far we’ve just seem the EU minor-league loyalists (like the Malta’s PM) showing they want to stay on side with the EU heavies. These are difficult time but I think our PM is doing as well as can be expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 Spain has already said they're keen to do a expat deal B-) ........... Well I suppose 17 million British tourists a year does make a big difference to their GDP ;-) .......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John52 Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 I doubt if the EU really wants to cosy up to Trump, certainly they have given Theresa no authority to do it for them. There may be a lot wrong with the EU, but its no worse than Trump. Trump is a here today gone tomorrow politician, at odds with many in his own country - like Bush was. Britain got no benefit from Blair sucking up to Bush. Wheras our European neighbours are forever. So I despair at Britain sucking up to Trump whilst shunning our own European neighbours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 John52 - 2017-02-04 10:23 AM So I despair at Britain sucking up to Trump whilst shunning our own European neighbours. Funny I got the impression they were shunning us ;-) ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
starvin marvin Posted February 4, 2017 Share Posted February 4, 2017 At least you're spelling her name correctly now, rather than the page3 soft porn star you'd previously confused Mother Theresa Maybe with! Was it just a spelling mistake? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StuartO Posted February 4, 2017 Author Share Posted February 4, 2017 starvin marvin - 2017-02-04 3:40 PMAt least you're spelling her name correctly now, rather than the page3 soft porn star you'd previously confused Mother Theresa Maybe with! Was it just a spelling mistake? I'm afraid spelling is not my strong point! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derek pringle Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 hi all, Not being a staunch tory myself I believe she is doing a good job at a very bad time for any P.M. As they said years ago 'she is the best man fo the job'--- it is always easy to criticise when you are not the one in the hot seat--Corbyn. cheers derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pelmetman Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 StuartO - 2017-02-04 4:19 PMstarvin marvin - 2017-02-04 3:40 PMAt least you're spelling her name correctly now, rather than the page3 soft porn star you'd previously confused Mother Theresa Maybe with! Was it just a spelling mistake?I'm afraid spelling is not my strong point!Page 3 is? :D ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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