These claims are not even denied by BoJo's team, clearly because they are 100% true with significant evidence to back them up. Multiple EU sources have accused him of basically lying about the negotiations. The EU negotiators have confirmed they are available to meet daily but there are not daily meetings taking place as there is nothing brought forward to discuss, if this was not true it would be very easy to disprove it.
It is David Davis all over again. Big hitters of the leave movement simply refusing to go into bat to get the easy deal they all promised us. They just want to blame the EU when it all falls apart, a pantomime that we have seen before.
So:
Step 1. establish clarity that the backstop must be removed - nothing else needed
Step 2. discuss the opportunity to use 'alternative arrangements' and to implement an effective standstill/transition period following 31/10/19 during which details will be finalised and embedded into a future agreement
Step 3 - place the EU in a position where they have no time to dissemble and they either go with that of they execute No-Deal and do that before you
Step 4 - place Westminster in a position where they have no time to dissemble and they either go with that of they execute No-Deal
Step 5. Leave and then negotiate during the transition period
Seemed quite an obvious approach and has the benefit of ending this farce either way - of course until Westminster's last throw(s) of the dice
Stop clinging to David Davis's incompetence - he was hamstrung by May, Robbins and Hammond - as were others.
The key words are 'viable' and 'political will to use it'
There does not need to be a 'massive engagement' - just one thing agreed to and the EU know what it is.