Blinken touts ‘progress’ made in highly-anticipated Beijing meetings
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/18/china/blinken-china-visit-wang-yi-meeting-intl-hnk/index.html
You are not paying attention, as usual. I am not in favour of most of China's policies (foreign and domestic). However, for Biden to say what he said, only a day after a reportedly hopeful visit to China by his senior foreign representative, is quite moronic and any goodwill restored will be shattered.
Do you think Biden might have told Blinken about what he was going to say at the fundraiser before Blinken wasted his time going to China?
First appeasement, then insult, Biden is a dangerous fool.
No. You are wrong. It was in place but reduced. Blair gave back a big chunk in 2005.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/6516753/Tony-Blairs-decision-to-cut-the-EU-rebate-cost-9.3billion-report-shows.html
An impossible question to answer as the details were never made pubic. It is also impossible for you to say that "the deal she got was as good as it could have been". However, in order to get a better deal then a tougher stance should have been taken from the off; May pretended to be doing this but that was all mush.
Someone cannot not say to them "let me understand, you are claiming that it's not Brexit that failed, but that you are incompetent?" because these people were not in a position of power to do anything differently. The mismanagement of Brexit is down to Theresa (Lino) May and her beloved Ollie Robbins KCMG CB. The negotiations were weak to start with and then went south from there. Even Johnson knew that to "get Brexit done" there could be few deviations made from the useless so-called Chequers Agreement, else there would be another 5 more years of pissing about.