In the circumstances leading up to these negotiations, it may indeed be as you suggest – that I love undertones because I am unable to recognise the bleedin obviousYou love undertones because you refuse to accept what my dad used to call the bleedin obvious, it's all noises off and slights of hand with you. When the evidence of our weakness is there for all to see and when the major players from across the Channel harden their stance with every utterance, you rush to hide behind cod psychology and start leafing through your well thumbed copy of Negotiating for Idiots. You are ideologically hardwired not to take our opponents (because that is what they've become) at face value, because, let's be honest, that would require accepting what a fool you've been, so instead, you pathologically refuse to see what's staring you in the face and instead engage in a ridiculous exercise of second guessing intentions and reading between the lines.
You know sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and sometimes when powerful people sitting opposite a negotiating table tell you you're fucked, that is precisely what you are.
Your opinion and you are welcomed to it. I stated that my views posted were my opinion - must you seek to suppress any opinions that you do not agree with
A further opinion of mine is that you repeatedly demonstrate to us all that you do not have even the slightest ability to think outside your very very narrow prejudices and a very very limited ability to analyse matters and draw objective conclusions.
Whereas doing such objective analysis of emerging information (including the ability to read ‘undertones’) and drawing up negotiating plans based on them is what I have done for a living for many successful years.
Based on that experience I would say that you are simply without any of the attributes required for people to consider your ramblings to be anything other than blustering nonsense.
Anyway, get on with it but, frankly, there are people on here who’s view of my credibility to comment on negotiations I would be particularly interested in – you are most certainly not one of them. A while ago, when you did one of your flouncing departures, you also stated that you were not going to respond to me again. Re this latter point can you not for once just deliver on something you say?
Or if you must respond – why not respond to the negotiating question I put to you but which you are dodging – understandably IMO, as whilst you have only a very narrow ability to assess matters, it might just stretch to understanding that you would embarrass yourself
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