Thread: Post-Brexit Thread
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Old 17-01-2017, 13:39   #3816
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Re: Post-Brexit Thread
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
It's a warning shot across the bows of the EU supertanker. A little bit of gunboat diplomacy.
I kind of thought that she and Philip Hammond were previously playing good cop, bad cop. By having Philip Hammond seen as more pro-EU than Therese May making the threats last week was quite a clever move.
Her repeating them today was less effective. Did she want the press to focus on these threats, ie a dead cat trick? Or was she dazzled by the attention of the Brexit press and decided to play up to them?
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