“The first losers of [a no deal Brexit] would be the British!” President of France Emmanuel Macron thundered after hearing that Theresa May had won her no confidence vote in Parliament.
His comments came as he neared the end of a 7-hour town hall meeting in Normandy which is part of his attempt to ‘re-engage’ French voters. This comes as the Yellow Vests march on in the face of extreme Police Brutality including tear gas being fired from helicopters and Police being issued with fully automatic weapons.
“I’m gonna tell you how I see things,” Macron said. “First option: they go towards a no deal so they say there is no agreement. It scares everybody. The first losers of this are the British people. So, in this context, they will have to – without any transition period – renegotiate a future relationship.”
The former Rothschild banker who married his school teacher said he believed the British government would instead seek an Article 50 extension in order to renegotiate the deal ahead of second parliamentary vote.
“I think that’s what they’ll do. I know them a bit. In that case, we’ll look into it, and maybe we’ll make improvements on one or two things, but I don’t really think so because we’ve reached the maximum for what we can do with the deal.
The EU won’t stop defending European interests just to solve Britain’s domestic political issues.”
But perhaps the most significant part of the meetings was his impromptu Brexit predictions.
Macron finished by saying:
“It says a lot about what referendums, which seemed nice, can create. It’s a referendum that has been manipulated, manipulated from outside by a lot of what we call fake news, where everything and anything was said, and now they are being told ‘figure it out yourselves’. Result: it is not true.
We (the Leave campaign) have lied to the people and what they (the public) have chosen is not possible. Good luck to the representatives of the nation who have to implement a thing which doesn’t exist and explain to the people: ‘you have voted on a thing, we lied to you. That’s what they have to go through.”
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