Tusk’s tsk, tsk

What a telling off by Donald Tusk! The EU President came to 10 Downing Street and noted that a more realistic tone had been heard from No 10 on Brexit, but still confirmed that not enough progress had been made on the three key issues in order for a recommendation that a start on future trade talks could be made.

When one stands back and analyses what has happened in that encounter, it makes one cringe to think that the country is represented by a Prime Minister with such lack of realism, who went along with the Foreign Secretary’s smirking boast that one could “have one’s cake and eat it”.

The fact that Donald Tusk repeated the same phrase publicly to put down Theresa May shows the turn around in spheres of influence within the EU.

Where there was a veto within the Council of Ministers, there is nothing and the country is reduced to supplicant status. How the innate arrogance of the Brenglish establishment has been well and truly punctured!

As the French President is outlining ideas to move the EU on and the Commission President aims to enable the EU to reach out globally, Theresa May, the strident proclaimer of Liam Fox’s free-trading, tariff-free global Britain, wanted a transition arrangement with the EU on her terms basically. A tacit admission that the cliff is approaching fast.

As the deluded UK establishment hides its reduced status behind its aircraft carriers, pomp and pantomime “traditions” and a spiralling out of control debt now in trillions, others simply see its selfimposed isolation and smile benignly.

The French President issued the final telling point when he said the UK could rejoin the EU sometime in the future. In other words you are now to all intents and purposes out and passé.

The Westminster, Better Together establishment has been truly put in its place

JOHN EDGAR Merrygreen Place, Stewarton