You are just starting to sound a bit 'butt hurt' mate - I can understand your frustration and have a level of sympathy - just why does the head of the UK negotiating team not just do what Barnier wants??
IMO - Frost is clearly spot on to state:
‘Covid19 has not made any changes in priorities in Brexit negotiations. "I don't think it's changed anything," says UK chief negotiator David Frost’
Why would it have done? It is a terrible pandemic and causing major distractions - but the UK priorities of the Brexit negotiations have become (at last) to see the UK leave the EU as an independent nation and free of EU controls and regulations.
Why would that priority have changed. OK - CV-19 could cause issues of logistics and timetable but not in the priority of intended outcomes.
Therefore you are clearly wrong to state:
" Well of course it’s changed things you fucking dick."
As I say - it makes you just sound a bit butt-hurt
Also Frost saying:
""We are still at a relatively early stage of negotiations" - UK's chief Brexit negotiator David Frost tells select committee. Just weeks before crunch decision must be made on fisheries and transition extension following high level stocktake."
Is a simple statement of fact - the negotiations are not making progress towards an agreement - we remain anchored in the early stages. The fact that we are only weeks away from a key milestone is also factual - but does not detract from the accuracy of his statement.
So your response of
"Yeah, because everyone has been focused on the pandemic and current European focus is putting together a European Recovery Plan. That will be the pandemic that ‘hasn’t changed anything’. Moron"
is just more petulance born out of being butt-hurt it seems.
Congratulations to Frost would seem to be in order - what a difference there is in the dynamics from only 6 months ago. All the signs are now that the 'monkey is on the EU shoulder'. The EU is from where all the anxiety is emanating from with regard an extension being needed - the UK are sounding quite calm and sanguine.
Everyone knows that the EU like to have the high-ground and bully the other party in negotiations - it is seeming to be quite stressful for Barnier and he is coming across as increasingly rattled.
They just want an extension which can lead to another extension..... and they are perplexed that we are not playing our assigned role.
The exam question and statement from the UK to the EU at this time should be -
"....can you, between now and the end of June, provide sufficient certainty and assurance that if we continue with negotiations beyond that point you will concede to the UK positions on LPF and other key areas identified?
If not, we will end the negotiations at the end of June and use the remaining months to prepare for no-deal. If so- we will continue the dialogue beyond June to put meat on the bones of sector agreements."
Simples really when you stop obsessing that the UK has some sort of duty to cave into the EU
I will resist the temptation to remind you that...…...
