The clock is ticking and it’s high time far more urgency was injected into Brexit talks — on both sides
IT’S high time far more urgency was injected into Brexit talks.
So we welcome Theresa May insisting both sides have to put more hours in.
It has been mystifying that only a week each month so far has been devoted to actually meeting face to face.
Small wonder these sessions end with each side bemoaning a lack of progress.
We share the frustrations of firms here and in Germany who want immediate focus on an economic deal.
Brussels must stop fantasising about taking Britain to the cleaners financially and accept that trade talks need to start.
Even their most slavish UK cheerleader Nick Clegg now wants that — and thinks the EU has been too “rigid”.
He can say that again.
These talks are the most vital we and the EU have undertaken in decades.
Negotiators should be thrashing out our differences full-time on behalf of the millions whose lives they affect.
And our PM should cut to the chase and personally address Angela Merkel and Emmanuel Macron.
The clock is ticking.
We need several days of negotiations every week — and long hours put in until a deal is struck.
Remain sane
BREXIT has driven many once-serious politicians mad.
Labour’s Lord Adonis, still trusted by the Tories to oversee Britain’s infrastructure strategy, lobbies to have the country’s most forensic political interviewer fired by the BBC.
Why? Because he reckons Andrew Neil — a model of even-handedness — spreads pro-Brexit propaganda.
And, just in case we weren’t worried enough about the peer’s sanity, he also claims BBC news is run by Brexiteers.
Yes, you read that right . . . BBC news.
Both accusations are so ludicrously wrong they’re not even worth countering.
They are a sign of the paranoia and derangement among Remain diehards increasingly hysterical with every day the March 2019 deadline draws closer.
More serious is how that panic is fuelling Remain opposition to the crucial EU Withdrawal Bill, threatening disaster for Brexit and the Government.
Labour at least have a selfish motive to throw up obstacles, even to this harmless law, since they are bent on destroying the Tories.
Tory Remainers would need to be bonkers to get into bed with them. And of all people they should fully support EU laws being enshrined in ours.
But then, as we said, Brexit has driven some to the brink of madness. They need to step back from the edge.
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Wills’ duty call
OUR hearty congrats to William and Kate.
We have lately been critical of the Prince for not putting much of a shift in.
Turns out he had urgent duties to handle.