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Brexit POLL: Juncker claims EU are guilt free so who do you blame for the mess?


Express.co.uk is asking you, our readers, who you think is to blame for the current Brexit mess.

Is Mr Juncker right to blame Boris Johnson for failing to provide a credible alternative to the current deal on the table?

Or does fault lie with Theresa May, for extending the Brexit deadline and failing to get the deal through Parliament in the first place?

Alternatively, should blame rest with other UK politicians, such as the Remainer MPs for attempting to block the Prime Minister from carrying out the will of the British people.

Jeremy Corbyn could also be at fault for preventing Mr Johnson from securing a parliamentary majority and a fresh mandate, by blocking the Government from calling a snap general election.

Or perhaps the blame lies on the EU’s doorstep.

But Brussels has attempted to come across guilt-free, having repeatedly stated that Brexit is a “British decision”.

Mr Juncker told German newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine: “Our chief negotiator Michel Barnier and I are doing everything possible to get an agreement.

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But Mr Johnson refused to apologise for his choice of language and said he would continue to call the Benn Act the “Surrender Act”.

He told the BBC: “I think it’s fair enough to call the ‘Surrender Act’ what it is. I think it’s absolutely reasonable.”

He added: “We do need to bring people together and get this thing done.

“Tempers need to come down and people need to come together, because it’s only by getting Brexit done that you’ll actually lance the boil, as it were, of the current anxiety.”

It comes after the Commons saw ferocious debates this week, following the Supreme Court’s ruling that prorogation was unlawful.

Mr Johnson repeatedly clashed with MPs and was condemned for saying the best way to honour Jo Cox, the pro-Remain Labour MPs killed just days before the 2016 referendum, was to “get Brexit done”.

As a result of his behaviour, shadow home secretary Diane Abbott said that Mr Johnson has ruined his chances of passing a Brexit deal through the Commons.

She told the BBC: “I have heard from and seen comments from Members of Parliament who might have wanted to consider a Boris Johnson deal and that is over.”

Her prediction gained some weight yesterday, when MPs voted against a motion to allow for a parliamentary recess for the Tory conference next week.



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