So, we were promissed by Brexiters we are sure going to be getting a good deal from EU, from Germans to be precise, as they are the ones that run the EU.
For some reason, it’s not happening, but we still have time, don’t we, they need us more than we need them, surely, after all it’s what BoJo and frog face promissed us, and they wouldn’t lie to British people, surely.
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Well, these German car manufacturers are taking their sweet time. Remember them? The guys who were going to make sure the EU gave us a good deal? All right, so
they never actually said they would make sure the EU gave us a good deal. But we were told they would. All the way through the referendum campaign. The EU would have to give us a good deal, because German car manufacturers would insist on it. To them, the British were such important customers that, the minute we voted Leave, they’d be straight on the phone to Angela Merkel, growling, “Now listen up, Frau Chancellor. Give Britain a good deal – or else! Remember – we are the ones in charge here, not you or those clowns in Brussels!”
Yes, they would come through for us, have no fear. And yet mysteriously, more than two years since the referendum, we still haven’t heard a peep out of them. The all-powerful German car manufacturers have yet to stage their decisive pro-British intervention – and there are now less than six months to go. It must be said, they do seem to be leaving it rather late. Surely they can’t have forgotten. Or are their secretaries, at this very minute, bursting into their boardrooms and shrieking, “Herr Chief Executive, I am so sorry! I forgot to remind you of the number one item at the top of your To Do list! ‘June 24, 2016. Order German Chancellor to give British government absolutely anything it wants from Brexit, asap’!”
Whatever the reason for the delay, let’s hope these German car manufacturers get a move on, because things are starting to look just a little bit dicey. Yesterday, talks between Britain and the EU reportedly hit a brick wall, and today the anxiety among MPs reached such a pitch that Theresa May was forced to come to the Commons in an attempt to reassure them. The two sides weren’t “far apart”, she insisted, and “I continue to believe that a deal is achievable”.
MPs did not sound impressed – whichever side of the debate they were on. Brexiteers seemed to suspect that Mrs May was planning to surrender to the EU, while Remainers seemed to suspect that she was planning to surrender to her backbenchers. “She’s dancing to the tune of the hard Brexiteers!” protested Remainer Chris Leslie (Lab, Nottingham East). Brexiteers sighed wistfully.
Above Labour’s groans and jeers, Boris Johnson could just about be heard asking Mrs May to confirm that December 2021 would be the deadline for the “backstop” (the proposal that would in effect see the UK remain temporarily in the EU’s customs union). Mrs May dodged the question. December 2021, she said, was “the expectation” – or at least, it had been, when the “temporary customs arrangement proposal” had been published in June. Mr Johnson stared grimly into the middle distance.
Anyone got a number for a German car manufacturer?
