….is that the party who breaks the silence loses the deal.

Angela Merkel, being an East German career politician, has never really had to play in the real world so doesn’t know this. If she had, she wouldn’t have said this.

Oops. I think that means the UK get, erm, whatever the fuck they ask for between now and 2018.

I think I’ll have the Earldom of Erikousa, the loveliest place I’ve ever dropped a Danforth. Right, where’s my old mate Curruthers of the F.O.’s number…..