{"id":606,"date":"2019-10-16T15:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/?p=606"},"modified":"2019-10-16T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2019-10-16T14:26:17","slug":"how-do-you-want-todays-negotiations-to-turn-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/16\/how-do-you-want-todays-negotiations-to-turn-out\/","title":{"rendered":"How do you want today&#8217;s negotiations to turn out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/oct\/16\/michel-barnier-optimistic-of-deal-after-pm-makes-concessions-on-irish-border\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Michel Barnier optimistic of deal after PM makes concessions on Irish border<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This may be a minority opinion round here, but I hope that a deal is agreed today. If it is it will probably be a bad deal in many respects. Nonetheless I would prefer not to let the best be the enemy of the good, or more to the point, the possible. Once we are out, new things can happen. I feel the need of some new things.<\/p>\n<p>If, after that, Remainers manoeuvre to block such a deal (after wailing for months about how terrible the absence of one would be, as I was discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/2019\/10\/16\/knowing-when-to-fold-em\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday<\/a>) &#8211; that&#8217;s on them. Let <em>them<\/em> defend their choice to start playing <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?rlz=1C1EJFA_enGB725GB725&amp;sxsrf=ACYBGNRKTElydeLDnfAHZeA_-3r6bz5GcA:1571235430405&amp;q=%27Just+when+you+thought+it+was+safe+to+get+back+in+the+water.%22&amp;tbm=isch&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwju-7-N_KDlAhXCVRUIHfevCx4QsAR6BAgFEAE&amp;biw=1745&amp;bih=815\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brexit II<\/strong>: Just when you thought it was safe to look at the news again.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel Barnier optimistic of deal after PM makes concessions on Irish border This may be a minority opinion round here, but I hope that a deal is agreed today. If it is it will probably be a bad deal in many respects. Nonetheless I would prefer not to let the best be the enemy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":615,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions\/615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatrealignment.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}