Juncker: Get act together on Brexit
TOP Brussels official Jean-Claude Juncker told the UK to “get your act together” over Brexit as he lashed out at “entirely unreasonable” Britons yesterday.
The European Commission president also rejected claims of a plot to keep the UK in the European Union “by all possible means” and suggested most MPs “deeply distrust” the EU and Theresa May.
Juncker’s comments came as Cabinet Brexiteer Liam Fox warned the chances of Britain quitting the bloc will be little more than “50-50” if MPs vote down the Prime Minister’s deal next month.
Tory rebels and the Democratic Unionist Party have vowed to block her plan because of a row over the Irish backstop. Juncker told German newspaper Welt am Sonntag: “It is not us who are leaving the UK – it is the UK that is leaving the EU.
“I find it entirely unreasonable for parts of the British public to believe that it is for the EU alone to propose a solution for all future British problems.
“My appeal is this – get your act together and then tell us what it is you want. Our proposed solutions have been on the table for months.”
He was “working on the assumption that (the UK) will leave, because that is what the people of the UK have decided”.
MPs are due to vote in the week of January 14 after May, facing a disastrous defeat, scrapped the original date of December 11.