The EU publishes the longest joke in history – all 46 pages of it
Well, it was EU carnival day so it must have been a joke, right?
Mardi Gras carnival in Belgium, credit Marie-Claire
The full, unexpurgated version of the EU’s negotiating demands, issued yesterday
A quick Brexit Facts4EU.Org sketch at the start of the Mardi Gras carnival
Members of the Brexit Facts4EU.Org team are still laughing, after having read the EU’s humorously-entitled publication.
“ADDENDUM: DIRECTIVES FOR THE NEGOTIATION OF A NEW PARTNERSHIP WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND”
This paper was finally released yesterday in Brussels and it will no doubt be carried by Michel Barnier into every EU-UK trade negotiating session over the coming months.
At 46 pages this document weighs in somewhere between one of the late Bob Monkhouse’s jokes and, say, Jerome K Jerome’s “Three Men in a Boat”. In quality of humour it cannot match either, sadly, but the EU ideologues have at least made an effort. Having recently lost their greatest comedy creation - Jean-Claude Juncker - it can’t be easy.
MORE SERIOUSLY
We will of course have much more to say about this document and about the forthcoming ‘trade’ negotiations, but for the moment we are providing readers with the EU's full and unexpurgated document in case anyone wishes to read it in detail.
On first read our initial response was to laugh, and that’s what we did. Perhaps it didn’t help the EU’s cause that they launched this list of negotiating demands on the first day of Mardi Gras. 25 February is traditionally the day when carnival starts across many EU towns and cities. For the week of Mardi Gras, people across the EU dress up in embarrassing costumes and go crazy in the streets. In the UK we make pancakes and call it Shrove Tuesday.
We will rest the first part of our case there, for now.
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