Originally Posted by
Rjk
I'm not sure where you are getting any of that from. The EU cannot force an election and the people involved in the negotiation would even say that it wasn't any of their business.
The EU negotiators set out how they would respond right at the start of the process and have been very consistent, it is the Tories who are either incompetent in thinking that the EU would abandon its core principles to suit us, or just grandstanding to deflect the inevitable terrible outcome is not their fault and hoping that people blame the EU 'bullies' instead.