Johnson Sends EU “Final Offer” On Brexit Compromise

The Associated Press reports:

The U.K. will offer the European Union a proposed Brexit deal on Wednesday that represents a compromise for both sides, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said as he urged the bloc to meet Britain halfway and allow for the country’s orderly departure after years of wrangling.

Johnson’s speech to Conservative Party members at their annual conference had been billed by his office as a take-it-or-leave-it “final offer” to the EU. Yet as delivered, it was more like a plea to the bloc, and to Britons, to end more than three years of acrimonious wrangling over the terms of the U.K.’s exit from the EU.

“Let’s get Brexit done,” was the repeated refrain to delegates at the conference in Manchester, northwest England. In his speech, Johnson said people who voted for Brexit “are beginning to feel that they are being taken for fools.”

Let’s get Brexit done.

Let’s unite our country.

And let’s finally believe in ourselves and what we can do.#GetBrexitDone #CPC19 pic.twitter.com/lPJjkPJdt6

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) October 2, 2019

Boris Johnson talks of grave consequences for trust in our democracy if we don’t “get Brexit done”

What destroys trust in democracy is breaking the law, suspending Parliament and ignoring the truth that he has no mandate for a no deal Brexit#borisjohnsonspeech

— Caroline Lucas (@CarolineLucas) October 2, 2019

It is almost impressive that after all this time Boris Johnson come up with a Brexit proposal that has nothing whatsoever to recommend it https://t.co/zwNM0muAva

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) October 2, 2019

I withdraw all my opposition to Brexit because, as Mr Johnson has just said, in his barnstormingly reassuring speech 'we export Jason Donovan CDs to North Korea'.

So we can all relax.

— Jay Rayner (@jayrayner1) October 2, 2019

"Voters have more say over I'm a Celebrity than they do over this House of Commons"

Boris Johnson says Parliament "refuses to deliver Brexit… and refuses to have an election" as he addresses the Tory party conferencehttps://t.co/JNLcsMNnIk #CPC19 pic.twitter.com/laZeSbi0wv

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) October 2, 2019

Let’s get Brexit done.

Not just because we have such an immense agenda to take this country forward – but because Brexit is an opportunity in itself.#GetBrexitDone #CPC19 pic.twitter.com/jAE76nI44f

— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) October 2, 2019