-
It's in their interests to keep us no? I've just about got over my rage, I wonder if the continent can and conjure up some kind of group hug.
Not as much as it's in their interests to tell us to fuck off and make it as painful as possible. France, Germany and the EU do not want countries to think that leaving the EU is an easy or painless option. It's in their interests to make it as unpleasant and as hard as possible, pour disencourage* les autres, to misquote Voltaire.
*Can't get this stupid thing to do accents - I know it should have an acute accent, but you'll just have to imagine it...
Brommers-
It's in their interests to make it as unpleasant and as hard as possible, pour disencourage* les autres, to misquote Voltaire.
*Can't get this stupid thing to do accents - I know it should have an acute accent, but you'll just have to imagine it...
What you wrote wouldn't have an acute accent on any of the words, not least because 'disencourager' doesn't exist in French. (No acute accents on the endings of French infinitives.) It's «décourager» and the complete phrase should be «pour décourager les autres».
Oliver Schick
I can't see the Tory MPs allowing a general election when they get to choose a new leader of the country unchallenged ( 2/3 of the house need to agree on a premature election I think).
How much clout have we got in negotiating a new deal with Brussels? We are (were) roughly the second strongest economy, the English speaking international point of contact for business, good diplomats and generally decent people... It's in their interests to keep us no? I've just about got over my rage, I wonder if the continent can and conjure up some kind of group hug.