John mills welcome to conflict zone thank you have you finally accepted that the European Union is not going to blink when it comes to the deal on the table they finally mean what they said this is the only deal available for the day has not changed substantially since november cyprus and some Traffic Ations i think we have to accept that thats the only really likely situation i think you could rule out them trying to help the Prime Minister at the summit by offering a few more clarification zork them or making interpretations i dont think the substance there is going to change in the state so your colleagues in the g. D. European Research Group fundamentally underestimated the didnt the. Well they kept saying it was going to blink i mean we had this return to britain didnt we the e. U. Will blink at the Eleventh Hour but were not there yet we need to hold our nerve they were never going to blink ever estimated only
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a shooting abilities in that situation were estimated but r f i think we are and i think any of us when we set out on this after the referendum for we end up in this situation of you know having no idea what the future partnership is being asked to sign a transition which restricts partnerships and you not not really have anything in return for it but i think the have held firm to their position about that may not have been a sensible tactic for them we haven t quite know how the next week or so will go you know we still haven t agreed a deal we still haven t agreed an extension you know they re still scared around if i do agree that the government agree to do you agree doing haven t gone through parliament to mean that s the key thing but this is this idea that the e.u. always blinks which we ve heard from many of your colleagues this it was a fundamentally force assumption wasn t it that somehow britain had equal cards with the e.u. it didn t never did in this negotiation i think onc
that the public holds the house of commons in near contempt for the fusion they see not only is opinion polarized here lots of factions are pursuing their own preferred ways but the public are even more polarized that the time of the referendum is basically saying look what you ve done to the people of this country what you ve done you confuse them you ve polarized them. that s what the result we had a referendum we thought implement that decision i think what many of us have been doing is saying we have a manifesto we went to the country here for a referendum and said here is our breakthrough plan we will not be in the customs union we will not be in the single market we want to be one of many generations even though you are going to run you should talk to the well during this period you talk to you argued amongst yourselves but he wouldn t talk to us until we formally triggered article fifty eight it wasn t possible to greece and before we started that two year journey taking what it
a shooting abilities in our situation were estimated them but r f i think we are i think any of us when we set out on this after the referendum for we end up in this situation of you know having no idea what the future partnership is being asked to sign or the terms ition which restricts our future partnerships and you not not really have anything in return for it but you know i have held firm to their positions about that may not have been a sensible tactic for them we haven t quite know how the next week or so will go you know we still haven t agreed a deal we still haven t agreed an extension you know there s still scurrying around if i do agree the government agree to do you agree a deal having gone through parliament to me that s the key thing but this this idea that the e.u. always blinks which we ve heard from many of your colleagues this it was a fundamentally force assumption wasn t it that somehow britain had equal cards with the e.u. it didn t it never did in this negotiatio