Negotiators

[Don]

New Zealand would consider offering the UK a loan of its best trade negotiators if this was of assistance.

Thanks, Guys, we might need 'em yet.

But who I want negotiating for me is the nastiest, meanest, son of a bh, psychopathic, steely-eyed the Conservative Party can muster. The sort that can smile nicely whilst twisting the knife. It's going to take that and then some.

But who? Nominations, please. Reasons.

Gove looks like too much of a pussy cat. He's not going to frighten anybody.

[Don]

Fittster said:

s2art said:

Fittster said:

Can any negotiation take place until we have left the EU (which could be a long way off)?

Firstly we have to negotiate for up to two years before exit. But I guess we can have talks with anyone else in parallel if we have the resources, why not?

Two years after article 50. As there's no date for article 50, which maybe years away itself, you can't really negotiate. "We'd like to sell you financial services and won't put tariffs on you sheep, however we have no idea when we can start to do that".

So you can't really sort out any deals until you have some time scales which you aren't going to get until after the article 50 button has been pushed, which has a lot of issues to sort out first.

The EU is desperate to get us to "push the button" on Article 50 to end the uncertainty.

So that's a negotiating lever. If I was a negotiator right now I think I might have a cup of coffee. And then take a couple of weeks vacation. And then have another cup of coffee...

[Don]

Teflon Tony is up for it. Just the sort of evil bd we need.

[Don]

Puggit said:

Don said:

Teflon Tony is up for it. Just the sort of evil bd we need.

The man who negotiated away a large chunk of our EU rebate in exchange for thin air? No thanks!

If MI6 takes Cherie hostage he could be made to get us a better deal.