Decline and Fall - updates on Brexit negotiations

The defenestration of Brexit is going to take place meeting by meeting, over the next two years minimum, so here's a place - the post post EU thread - for tears and schadenfreude.

To kick off, a meeting took place today between Michel Barnier (EU's chief negotiator) and Oliver Robbins (UK's chief negotiator). It did not go well. Barnier's staggering conclusion was that the UK government 'does not get' Brexit. He also flatly rejected Robbins' attempt to start 'technical' talks at senior civil servant level before negotiators get down to business.

Round one to the EU.

Roll on Monday, when it all (allegedly) starts in earnest. Not that anyone should worry that it's taken almost exactly a calendar year to get from the referendum result to the beginning of meaningful talks, or that three months have already been needlessly wasted after Article 50 was triggered...

https://twitter.com/JenniferMerode/status/874684977954291713

Oh, and since my predictions are terrible, I'm forecasting a resounding last-gasp win for the Brexit jihadis.