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discocrisco01

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Wed May 5, 2021, 03:09 PM May 2021

EU negotiator Barnier spills Brexit secrets in new book

Source: BBC

From the moment Michel Barnier was made the EU's chief Brexit negotiator in July 2016 he was at the heart of talks to reach a deal with the UK government.

Mr Barnier watched his opposite numbers come and go as the EU and UK first agonised over the terms of a transition deal and then later concluded a trade agreement.

But what can we learn from his 500 pages of memoirs about the turbulent talks and what he thought of his UK counterparts?

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56996547

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The dismantling of British rule of law to protect Russian and English ultra rich Oligarchs Ford_Prefect May 2021 #1

Ford_Prefect

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1. The dismantling of British rule of law to protect Russian and English ultra rich Oligarchs
Wed May 5, 2021, 04:53 PM
May 2021

from banking laws and investigation of their influence on the Tory/ Brexit government. Brexit was nothing less than Putin et al taking the British conservatives over the edge in the same way they used American conservatives to accomplish the same ends.

All the rest was smoke and mirrors to blind the public and other members of government, and to sow chaos among the western partners in the EU.

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