BRUSSELS (AP) – Diplomatic language has gone out of the window in the standoff over Britain’s departure from the European Union, with a UK government delegate calling one top EU official a “stupid boy.”
Martin Callanan, Minister of State at the Department for Exiting the European Union of the United Kingdom, said ahead of an EU meeting that EU Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans has spread “childish insults” about the British negotiating stance which has failed to bring a breakthrough in over two years of talks.
Timmermans says in a BBC documentary to be aired late Thursday that U.K. negotiators had been “running around like idiots.”
Callanan, quoting a famous riposte from the British sitcom “Dad’s Army,” said Timmermans was a “stupid boy.”
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This is what Eurocrats really think about the new treaty May is trying to peddle to the public. Punish her for her betrayal on May 23!pic.twitter.com/8B50RCVeX7
— Leave.EU (@LeaveEUOfficial) May 10, 2019
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