This week the Spectator’s James Kirkup documented how David Cameron misread Merkel from the beginning. “Cake was never on her menu, either before or after the referendum,” he wrote.
It seems the more Merkel resisted Downing Street’s overtures, the more convinced the Conservative Party became it was all just part of an elaborate negotiating ritual, as if Germans had suddenly become masters of subtlety.
Instead of acknowledging that Germany’s commitment to the EU’s four freedoms is its raison d’état, Tory expectations that “Mutti” Merkel would come to the rescue with a workaround, Mary Poppins-like, only intensified.[...]
To complete that déjà vu feeling, look for breathless predictions that Friedrich Merz, a leading candidate to replace Merkel with a long history of mandates for investment firms, gets why Europe needs to cut the U.K. some slack.
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