Now we know why they think May is in a different Galaxy.

[vetran]

The EU aren't in this one.

€100bn Brexit bill is ‘legally impossible’ to enforce, European Commission’s own lawyers admit

A massive €100bn Brexit bill is "legally impossible" to enforce, the European Commission’s own lawyers have admitted.

The Telegraph has seen minutes of internal deliberations circulated by Brussels’s own Brexit negotiating team, which had warned against pursuing the UK for extra payments.

But member states appear to have ignored the Commission's own advice by demanding €100bn (£85bn) from the Government, a sharp hike in the original demand of €60bn.

The inflated bill deepened the rift between Brussels and Downing Street. A leaked report of a Downing Street dinner with European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker accused Theresa May of living in “another galaxy”, prompting the Prime Minister in turn to accuse EU politicians and officials of seeking to disrupt the General Election.

Thick as mince apparently....

[BlasterBates]

The 100 billion figure is now being debated up and down the country, it will be repeated ad nauseam on the news and TV talk shows. In a few weeks if you ask average man in the street to simply respond to the word EU, he'll automatically reply "100 billion", this means when May manages to beat them down to 60 billion, it will be seen as a major victory.

[AtW]

It's not about whether it's legally possible to enforce even a euro of payments from UK, it's about position that EU adopts as to what UK owes for Brexit, after that UK will either pay it voluntarily on terms that they will be prepared to negotiate OR they will take same money (plus more for aggro) via any trade deal UK will be desperate to get.

[original PM]

It's not about whether it's legally possible to enforce even a euro of payments from UK, it's about position that EU adopts as to what UK owes for Brexit, after that UK will either pay it voluntarily on terms that they will be prepared to negotiate OR they will take same money (plus more for aggro) via any trade deal UK will be desperate to get.

Unless we decide to replace the head of the eu with a more compliant soul.

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[Paddy]

The EU aren't in this one.

€100bn Brexit bill is ‘legally impossible’ to enforce, European Commission’s own lawyers admit

Thick as mince apparently....

There are many penalties and bills that are unenforceable by law but sometimes it is advantages to settle them. I could keep arguing about bank charges but equally the bank could decide to close my account or a supplier decides no longer to supply. Who will bank on the UK if they don’t pay their bills.

Unless we decide to replace the head of the eu with a more compliant soul.

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We could have done so but the UK decided not to participate in most of the EU activities. Now you and others have chosen to be cowards and run away, there will be no say for the UK however, the rules decided by the 27 will need to be adhered to by the UK.

[darmstadt]

Yep, the Daily Telegraph, believe that:

For many in EU circles the former London mayor’s reputation for mendacity pre-dates the referendum campaign. Nobody has forgotten his activities as a journalist in Brussels, where he was correspondent for the Daily Telegraph between 1989 and 1994. The French tend to mythologise “Anglo-Saxon” journalism as the pinnacle of ethics and rigour, but Johnson was the incarnation of the gutter-press dictum: never let the facts get in the way of a good story. Indeed, this is what a grinning Johnson often remarked to his foreign counterparts when they protested about his exaggerated stories.
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One day he wrote a story claiming that Jacques Delors’ spokesman was so well-paid (as all of these incompetent Eurocrats, of course, had to be in Johnson’s narrative), that he lived in an immense chateau on the outskirts of Brussels. This was vehemently denied at a press briefing, to the hilarity of Johnson.
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Even worse, Johnson created a school of EU reporting: the entire British press, to varying degrees, began peddling Euromyths, fuelling the kind of Europhobia that no UK politician dared to stand up to, and which ultimately has now led to Brexit.

[AtW]

What would Tories be doing without being able to blame EU?

Ah yes we know, they'd be blaming EU forever for "not letting Britain prosper"...