I don't know if Liam Fox ever listens to himself or if he has a trusted friend who can talk to him candidly, but he needs to seriously think about the way he comes across in interviews like this one with The Sunday Times (HERE). He is talking about "ideological purity" as something that infects EU thinking but can't see it in himself. So driven is he to be ideologically separate to the EU he is willing to lay waste to the British economy, destroy the car and other industries drive farmers out of business and see food and medicine shortages.
"I think the intransigence of the commission is pushing us towards no deal,” Fox told the Sunday Times after a trade mission in Japan.
“We have set out the basis in which a deal can happen but if the EU decides that the theological obsession of the unelected is to take priority over the economic well being of the people of Europe then it’s a bureaucrats’ Brexit — not a people’s Brexit — (and) then there is only going to be one outcome.”
It was up to the EU whether it wanted to put “ideological purity” ahead of the real economy, Fox said. It's not our fault, we've told them what we want and if we don't get it, it will all be their fault. He sounds like a spoilt child who, when told they cannot have it all, say they won't accept any and if this makes them unhappy, it is all your fault.
Fox puts the odds on the UK leaving without a deal at 60%. This is amazing. On Friday Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, was mercilessly attacked (HERE) for suggesting the odds of a no deal outcome were "uncomfortably high". Jacob Rees-Mogg says Carney is the "high priest of project fear". I assume Liam Fox will now get the same treatment? Somehow, I doubt this will happen.
Fox also seems to think the guidelines of the Commission negotiator were drawn up by "the unelected" rather than the democratically elected leaders of the EU27. He's kidding himself.
Update: Fox's comments about a no deal exit now being odds on has hit the pound (HERE). Strange that the Telegraph didn't comment like it did when Mark Carney made his innocuous comment that barely caused a ripple. Fox was far more blunt and has impacted Sterling far more but The Telegraph is silent. Amazing. And note it's the pound that fell - not the euro. I wonder why?
Update: Fox's comments about a no deal exit now being odds on has hit the pound (HERE). Strange that the Telegraph didn't comment like it did when Mark Carney made his innocuous comment that barely caused a ripple. Fox was far more blunt and has impacted Sterling far more but The Telegraph is silent. Amazing. And note it's the pound that fell - not the euro. I wonder why?
