Maybe Macron is just saying ‘good riddance’
A historic peace accord is being threatened by little more than ego, prejudice and ignorance
In January, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage spoke before the European parliament sporting a tie bearing the phrase "Non Illegitimi Carborundum", which, loosely translated, means "Don’t let the bastards grind you down".That the phrase is Dog Latin — it has no meaning in real Latin and is in fact a Latin-English pun — says much about the state of the Brexit project.The real threat is exhaustion. Just get it done, say (some) Remainers who have been ground down by years of lies, fiddling and madness. Everybody is worn out, in both Britain and the Continent, which is what British people used to call Europe.Yet, faced with more intransigence and sulking from Boris Johnson, who had vowed to take the UK out of Europe with or without a deal by October 31 — a lose-lose outcome — EU leaders pushed out the departure date to January 31 2020.Only French President Emmanuel Macron opposed the extension, saying the EU had underestimated Johnson and that he had the makings of a great leader. Had Mac...
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