'They know we're getting NO DEAL' Professor targets PM's attitude towards Brexit talks
THE DIRECTOR of the Global Policy Institute claimed the Prime Minister has already come to terms with Britain getting ‘no deal’ with the European Union.
Professor targets Theresa May's attitude towards Brexit talks
Professor Stephen Haseler said the reason Theresa May called a general election was because she has already accepted the UK will not get a good deal with the EU.
Mr Haseler described not getting a good deal with Brussels as a “crisis” as he spoke to RT.
He said: “This is a grave crisis between Europe and the UK. A really serious crisis.
“You don’t get someone like Mrs Merkel, this is not just Juncker, this is Mrs Merkel, Chancellor of Germany, a very moderate woman, says that the British Prime Minister has illusions and is deluded about our position.
“This is very strong words between two European leaders.
“We have a major crisis here and what it basically is this, the British Conservative Government are thinking of walking out of these talks.
“I think they know that they are going to get nothing. The hard men behind Mrs May are going to force her to get out of it, and this is why we have the general election.”
Following Mrs May’s meeting with the President of the European Commission, Mr Juncker allegedly claimed the Prime Minister was “deluded” before he reportedly phoned Angela Merkel to tell her that a Brexit deal could not be reached.
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The British Conservative Government are thinking of walking out of these talks
Mrs May described “a lot” of the leaked information from the Downing Street dinner, at the weekend, as “Brussels gossip”.
The professor also suggested the Conservatives were attempting to take Britain back to the Second World War with the rhetoric used during the election campaign so far.
He added: “This is a secret system that Mrs May wanted to get through during the election campaign, get a big majority and then when she has a big majority, we can face the crisis that is coming.
“The reason why this is undermining her in my view is that this is now being spelt out during the election.
“Although there will be a few people saying, look she takes on Juncker, the cliffs of Dover and we are back to the Second World War again, which is what the Tories want to do, they want to play the Second World War during this election campaign.
“It’s not going to stick.”
Mr Haseler finished by insisting ‘no deal’ would be catastrophic for the UK, as Mrs May has already reiterated that “no deal is better than a bad deal”.
He said: “What we are going to get. At the end of the negotiations the collapse of them, with Britain with no transitional arrangements going immediately into WTO terms, with no trade deals with anyone around the world.
“The whole reason for this general election is that you can hide this very very big problem that is coming up.”