A Theresa May, primera ministra británica (foto), la vienen sopapeando parejo desde su propio partido. El tema: Brexit. Las cosas no vienen saliendo tan bien desde el fatídico día en que decidieron realizar el referéndum. Sale caro, chicos. Así lo cuenta el portal de noticias Sputnik News en las dos notas que siguen:
Título: UK Cabinet in Turmoil After 'Orwellian' Letter to British PM
Epígrafe: The possibility of UK Prime Minister Theresa May stepping down seems more and more likely following the revelation of a scandalous 'for your eyes only' set of secret Conservative Party demands.
Texto: Tensions are on the rise in the UK's Cabinet following a recent covert letter by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Environment Secretary Michael Gove to the British PM, in which they demanded that transition arrangements for Britain's exit from the EU should end on June 30, 2021.
One of the Cabinet ministers expressed surprise over "this kind of language in a letter to the Prime Minister," according to The Guardian.
"Some have described it as Orwellian, and it is. It is not helpful when people try and press their views in an untransparent way," The Guardian quoted the unnamed minister as saying.
Referring to Johnson and Gove, another Cabinet minister urged May "to dress them down or look weak," something which was echoed by yet another minister, who described the letter as the kind of arm-twisting by Brexiters one expects to go on behind the scenes."
"The fact that it is in the public and is being inflicted upon the Prime Minister is remarkable," the minister was quoted by The Guardian as saying.
The tensions come as the EU withdrawal bill is due to be pushed by PM May through the House of Commons later this week. Earlier, it was reported that at least 40 Tory MPs had secretly agreed to ink a letter of no confidence in May as the Brexit talks are thought to be coming to a standstill.
The Brexit talks between the UK and Brussels, which kicked off on June 19, are expected to wrap up by the end of March 2019. In a referendum on June 23, 2016, about 51.9 percent of British voters supported the UK leaving the EU.
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Título: Brexit Divorce Bill is 'Thorn in Side of British Government' – Dr. Roslyn Fuller
Epígrafe: Amid reports that Theresa May is considering upping the country's offer with regard to the UK's "divorce bill" from the EU, Director of the Dublin-based Solonian Democracy Institute Dr. Roslyn Fuller told Radio Sputnik that London will have a hard time explaining to voters why they must continue paying billions to Brussels.
Texto: Wrangling between the UK and EU over the "divorce bill" that London has to pay in order to reach a trade agreement with Brussels has reached a head, with the EU demanding that the UK put a figure on its obligations within the next two weeks.
The issue of the divorce bill is a "thorn in the side for the British government" Dr. Roslyn Fuller, Director of the Dublin-based Solonian Democracy Institute, author of "Beasts and Gods: How Democracy Changed Its Meaning and Lost Its Purpose," told Radio Sputnik.
Fuller thinks that London will find it hard to explain to voters, many of whom expected that leaving the EU would end the UK's financial contributions to Europe, why they have to continue paying billions of pounds to the EU's budget even after Brexit has taken place.
"The leave vote was sold, to a certain extent, on the idea that Britain would stop paying a lot of money to the EU and that they were spending an inordinate amount of money on the EU that could be used for British social programs."
After the sixth round of Brexit talks last week, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said the UK needs to be firmer on its remaining financial commitments to the EU after Brexit.
At a joint press conference on Friday, Barnier was asked about reports that senior EU officials are giving the UK a two-week deadline to give a number with regard to the so-called "divorce bill" from the EU, which could run to tens of billions of euros.
"My answer is yes," Barnier responded, and also repeatedly demanded "real and sincere progress" in the talks.
However, when asked about the deadline on the Sky News program Sunday with Paterson, the UK's Brexit Minister David Davis dismissed the idea and replied, "In every negotiation each side tries to control the timetable," adding that "the real deadline on this, of course, is December. It's the December [European] council."
Fuller predicted that the UK will have to bow to the EU's demands for more money, if it is to reach a beneficial agreement on trade.
"The question is, what kind of relationship do you want to have with the EU in the future? Will you agree, for example, to acknowledge obligations to continue paying for certain programs or to honor obligations that Britain entered into before the Brexit vote happened."
"Those are the things that are coming to the fore and the EU is basically saying that 'if you don't honor some of those previous commitments, then we might be looking at a harder Brexit as well, and we might not want to have such a great trade relationship with you in the future, either,'" she told Sputnik.
UK Prime Minister Theresa May has already offered Brussels a €20 billion ($23.3 billion) settlement. This would honor Britain's contributions to EU's €143 billion ($166.8 billion) budget for the period 2014-2020.
European Council President Donald Tusk, right, poses for photographers with British Prime Minister Theresa May prior to a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, June 22, 2017.
On Friday, the Financial Times reported that May is ready to increase Britain's offer after signs that hardline Brexit supporters in her Conservative Party are willing to soften their stance on the divorce bill, if it helps to break the deadlock in Brexit negotiations with Brussels.
"The problem is that there was not really a plan made for these kinds of withdrawals, so no-one really knows how it would play out. It was something that up until a couple of years ago, was a theoretical, academic debate and what it basically just comes down is, 'who has what the other side wants?'"
Fuller said that from the UK's point of view, the negotiations depend on what the UK Conservative Party and its supporters want, "what their donors want, what each side wants that their opponent wants to get a hold of."
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