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Brexit negotiations ‘have not begun well’ – Sir Simon Fraser
The UK’s Brexit negotiations have not begun well amid “differences” inside the cabinet, a former head of the diplomatic service has said.
Sir Simon Fraser, chief mandarin at the Foreign Office until 2015, said the UK side had been “a bit absent” from formal negotiations in Brussels.
Sir Simon, who now advises businesses on Brexit, said he was concerned the UK had not put forward a clear position.
Downing Street said it disagreed strongly with his comments.
The government is expected to publish “position papers” on key issues soon.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4’s Westminster Hour, Sir Simon said he feared divisions within the cabinet were preventing the government from presenting a united front.
“The negotiations have only just begun, I don’t think they have begun particularly promisingly, frankly, on the British side,” he said.
“We haven’t put forward a lot because, as we know, there are differences within the cabinet about the sort of Brexit that we are heading for and until those differences are further resolved I think it’s very difficult for us to have a clear position.”
He added: “I think so far we haven’t put much on the table apart from something on the status of nationals, so we are a bit absent from the formal negotiation.”
He called on the government to publish further details about its views on issues, including future customs arrangements and the Northern Irish border in the coming weeks.
“I think we need to demonstrate that we are ready to engage on the substance so that people can understand what is really at stake here and what the options are.”
Downing Street rejected Sir Simon’s analysis.
“The last two months, we have had a constructive start to the negotiations. We have covered a significant amount of important ground,” the prime minister’s spokesman said.
“As the secretary of state for exiting the European Union said at the end of the last negotiating round, important progress has been made in understanding one another’s positions on key issues.”
‘Totally bizarre’
Last month, Brexit Secretary David Davis said he was confident negotiations would continue as planned after reports Brussels may delay trade talks because of a lack of progress on the “divorce” settlement.
At the weekend, the Sunday Telegraph claimed UK negotiators are now prepared to pay up to £36bn to the EU to settle the so-called Brexit divorce bill.
Downing Street said it did not recognise this figure.
Conservative MP Peter Bone said it would be “totally bizarre” for the UK to give the EU any money, let alone £36bn, adding that such a fee was unlikely to get through Parliament.
Another Eurosceptic MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, said there was “no logic” to the figure that was being reported.
Responding to Sir Simon’s comments, Liberal Democrat Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said: “This government is in the middle of the single biggest economic and diplomatic negotiation in our history.
“Yet while the clock is running down, key cabinet members are still squabbling over what type of Brexit to pursue.”
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With an avg. 1.2M voters per MEP & Britain having only 8%, if united, say. The EUropean Parliament has no ability to make policy and has a Commission of unelected bureaucrats, thus clearly the EU is not even a pretence of being a democracy; yet The EU & many of its vassal States are willing to slaughter people in Sovereign States, to impose The EU’s chosen brand of democracy on them!The imposition of a Government and policies upon its vassal regions such as the peoples of Greece shows just how far from being a democracy the EU is.
There will be little or no change in Britain’s economic position, when we leave the EU, using a better negotiated & updated version of the ‘Norway Model’ as a stepping stone to becoming a full member of the Eropean Economic Area, where all will benefit, as we secure trade relations with the EU’s vassal regions, with an EFTA style status and can trade and negotiate independently on the global stage, as members of The Commonwealth and the Anglosphere.
Do not overlook the fact that politicians have plotted and schemmed since the 1950s and we have actually been vassals of the EU, when it was still using the aesopian linguistics and calling itself The Common Market in the early 1970s, a name the bureaucrats arbitrarily changed to EUropean Union in the early 1990s as they worked towards their long term goals of an ever closer centrally controlled Political and economic Union with its own anthem, currency, flag and rigid central control by its self appointed bureacrats towards a new Empirate –
It will take many years to rectify the mess our political class got us into and we have no other peacefull means by which to extricate ourselves than to depend on that self same self styled elite, who all too often forget they work for us!
One huge benefit of BreXit will be that we can negotiate with bodies like the WTO, UN, WHO, IMF, CODEX and the like, directly, in our own interest and that of our partners around the world, in both the Commonwealth and the Anglosphere at large; rather than having negotiations and terms imposed by unelected EU bureacrats and their interpretation of the rules handed down, as if they were some great achievement of the EU’s!The greatest change and benefit will be political, as we improve our democracy and self determination, with the ability to deselect and elect our own Government, with an improved Westminster structure, see >Harrogate Agenda<.How we go about the process of disentangling our future wellbeing from the EU is laid out in extensive, well researched and immensely tedious detail see >FleXcit< or for a brief video summary CLICK HERE
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