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The BBC have made it the biggest story of the day, headline on every news bulletin. My feeling is that the majority of leave voters won't think "I better vote for someone who gets on well with Junker and Merkel" but will think "fuck Junker and Merkel good on you theresa".
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Well, the FAZ story mainly says May et al were appallingly briefed and out of their depth, but I haven't seen what the TV news or the tabs have made of it yet.
But a lot of the commentary I have seen so far talks about it as if we were the audience, not the Germans. I think that's wrong, and misleading. But sure, if it's presented as you describe then it's not going to engender any warm feeling.
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The FAZ article wasn't written for a UK audience, although we're all banging on about it as if it were - yet another example of our assumption that we're the centre of the world.
It was written for a German audience. It's explaining to Germans why it won't be Juncker's fault if the process endangers badly - it'll be the fault of those arrogant, unprepared Brits.
The fact they're already feeling the need to spin this way suggests to me that they're deeply pessimistic the Art 50 process will end well.