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Janet Daley, respected commentator in the Sunday Telegraph, has suggested - only half facetiously, I think - that the best plan for Brexiteers now would be to insist on remaining full members of the EU (which Britain is entitled to do), then wreck The Project from the inside.
"Wherever there was discontent over EU regulations or monetary policy in Club Med, we would mobilise it. Wherever there was a sense of disenfranchisement in the Eastern member states, we would legitimise it with our centuries old commitment to liberal democracy.
Mr Macron can forget about his dream of a European defence force, and Mrs Merkel can say good-bye to any hope of fiscal union. The British will still be there – defending the rights of national governments to represent their own peoples. Just try locking us in and see what happens."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/02/16/heading-great-brexit-trap-not-stay-wreck-eu-instead/
In vastly different circumstances I could see the French doing something like that. Sadly, no conceivable British government would have the bloody-mindedness for it.
"Wherever there was discontent over EU regulations or monetary policy in Club Med, we would mobilise it. Wherever there was a sense of disenfranchisement in the Eastern member states, we would legitimise it with our centuries old commitment to liberal democracy.
Mr Macron can forget about his dream of a European defence force, and Mrs Merkel can say good-bye to any hope of fiscal union. The British will still be there – defending the rights of national governments to represent their own peoples. Just try locking us in and see what happens."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2019/02/16/heading-great-brexit-trap-not-stay-wreck-eu-instead/
In vastly different circumstances I could see the French doing something like that. Sadly, no conceivable British government would have the bloody-mindedness for it.