Fair point on believing Junckers Col, he truly is a devious toad. But it's the only version of events I have access to, and no one on the UK side has actually denied any of the specifics or offered an alternative version, even David Davies who has just given a rather good interview on the radio. "It's just spin" is a completely different statement to "it's not true". And to date I have no reason to believe May more than Junckers.
As for the enemy within Remainers hoping everything will collapse, I have already posted on the fact that if you believe something is genuinely wrong you have a duty to speak up, particularly in the time before anything is decided, and in that context I want massive pressure on May in order to get the softest possible Brexit. There is no 'good' outcome for me, but there are least worst ones, and no deal is definitely the worst possible. But I am sure you are right, there are some Remainers who want the whole thing to fail so they can crow. But there are also a group of ultra hard line Brexiters, some of whom are Tory MPs, who not only want a complete break and no deal but seem to hope for acrimony. And I feel they have a disproportionate influence to their numbers.
The 'great nation' stuff I won't be drawn on, other than to say I'd prefer it if we were a generally happy nation rather than an unhappy divided 'great' one.
I'm beginning to understand the difficulty with the migrants' rights issue, which I thought would be relatively straightforward - it seems that the EU wants the EU constitution to be the jurisdiction which guarantees the rights of EU citizens in the U.K. post Brexit, on the grounds that anything agreed in the negotiations may not be complied with down the road if it's only under UK jurisdiction. Even I think this is unreasonable, any migrant has to accept the jurisdiction of the country they move to, and unless its enshrined in the kind of treaties we are leaving you cannot have extraterritorial jurisdiction.
