I have sympathy for the civil servants. As Juncker said, “Brexit cannot be a success” and it’s hard to choose what sort of failure you want. twitter.com/Usherwood/stat…
Brexit has been badly run politically, but when you’ve promised cake and eat it and have to negotiate from a starting point of less cake…
In twenty years this will be a case study of political systems failure, and I’d put money on the UK being in the EU and the Euro.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 1 August 2017. View the original thread.