Prof Anand Menon in Dublin today: 'Ireland is the only EU country that bothered to sit down and reflect in detail on the long-term relationship it wants between the UK and EU.' iiea
The Republic of Ireland is the only one of the EU 27 that is actually bothered to sit down and reflect in detail on the sort of long-term relationship it wants to see built between the United Kingdom and the European Union. “I THINK, IN a sense, what other member states have done is simply pass the buck to the EU Commission and say ‘You deal with this’.”
He’s also drawn people’s interest for his measured and informed criticism of the EU; in the Financial Times piece that festered a backlash last week, he argued: Menon outlined in his speech how divided the United Kingdom had become since the Brexit vote, and that the divides didn’t stray over normal Tory/Labour lines, but a melée of different Brexit views, party loyalties, and the usual left- and right- wing inclinations.
There is no majority, either amongst the British people or in that old parliament for any sort of Brexit outcome. In that sense of things, it’s always struck me that parliament’s been doing its job quite well. He also illustrated how divided the British people are by Brexit, and how it “shades” the British people’s views of each other.
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