May today: “Our opponents are seeking to disrupt [the] negotiations, at the same time as 27 other European countries line up to oppose us.”
This sounds like an accusation of treachery, as well as the sort of Europe-is-the-Enemy rhetoric that I thought we’d got past.
“Mesdames et Messieurs, la nationalisme, c’est la guerre”, as Mitterand once said.
Originally posted as a thread of 3 tweets on Twitter on 27 April 2017. View the original thread.