big brands have committed to fear working conditions and sustainable production. is monitoring to some contractors. and investigative documentary goes to elite country. and looks beyond the glamorous facades of the fashion houses . look sure in the. shorts no membership on g.w. . this was supposed to be the decisive week for when and how and possibly even whether the u.k. will leave the e.u. remains unclear after stormy debate a partial victory for boris johnson the majority in parliament approved his withdrawal a deal in principle but they voted down his timetable now the ball is in brussels court willing to agree to the extension a reluctant lee requested by the prime minister can westminster seal

a deal. to . come up. and we have 3 breaths that watchers with us here on to the point to help us penetrate the fog emanating from london he works for the irish times and he says boris johnson and his breakfast at brothers have paralyzed europe for 3 years now there is a huge departure has become a deal or no deal game show but it can always get worse and it will. and it's a pleasure to welcome john birth he is a british blogger living here in berlin he says a general election before christmas is now boris johnson's only way out of his self-inflicted mess. and we're very happy to have ventilated from grade 0 with us she works for the british my. it is in the economist and she says m.p.'s are

kicking the can down the road which means bracks it is less and less likely by the end the month. so derek you say that johnson and his brothers in your words have paralyzed europe but aren't we in fact seeing at least a little bit of movement now at least there has been agreement agreement on a deal which in fact is something to reset may never achieved you know has been technically in preliminary agreement i mean it's tiny steps forward but there could easily be more steps back and we've been doing this are very long time it's a signal of just how poisonous the british political system is now that the parliament doesn't trust its own prime minister they don't trust him that they will agree to this and they have double crossed him or he will be double crossed by his brigadiers the hard drugs here is and they will have a no deal breaks it so it's a sign of how bad things are that this is all they could do this week and we don't know what's coming so yes it's progress if you want but from a very low base so the parliamentarian's ventilating are asking for more influenced

more details more time you say that amounts to kicking the can down the road but isn't it pretty understandable that they have let's say woken up out of their stupor and are actually making some demands given the magnitude of what's happening it's absolutely understandable because it's a very complex undertaking they have to read through hundreds of pages of more than 100 pages of very detailed very complex stuff and you can't do that in a few days even though the prime minister tried to get them to do that by the end of the month so it is absolutely understandable the only thing is of course if you do that for yet another extension that again creates uncertainty and the possibility of obstacles or problems which is of course why didn't you kept insisting no we have to leave by the 31st of october which increasingly looks. feasible so john you say a general election could wind up being boris johnson's only way out. explain that

to us if you would because in fact he does have approval on this deal why would he want to reopen it so to speak simply because the only go to prevail because he put the parliament terence or potential but the problem terrence under enormous pressure they didn't actually really know this was in the steal so it's basically give me this deal now and what the palm towns are said is i'm going to mean it we need more time to analyze this and when they start looking into it they see details with regard to all of the different aspects the economic relationship the northern ireland border where they have problems and ultimately that 330 politicians that boris johnson had back in his deal he will whittle down that will go lower and lower as the weeks go by and boris johnson is understood that so if he says ok let's risk a general election i'll go into the general election promising breaks it and hopefully come back with a majority so ultimately it would be a gamble but that way he might increase the number of conservative members of parliament and then be able to get a much larger majority to make sure that his brakes it is secure so i'm going to

talk a little bit about the implications of an election in a moment but 1st let us ourselves explore a little bit of what this deal does contain so it's done just mentioned ireland especially northern ireland a major sticking point. p. party that used to be friends of the tories saying it's been sold out can you just briefly tell us derek what exactly is the agreement now on ireland is it workable and is it going to be acceptable in the end if there's a compromise on both sides a northern ireland in future will be sort of in between the e.u. and the u.k. it will be officially part legally part of the u.k. customs union so if you kate does deals with us it can profit from that but there's a back door and up back door we'll keep the border between northern ireland and the republic which is staying in the open so basically if you were to be positive about it they have the best of all possible worlds even membership on officially pragmatically on a day to day basis travelling over. back across the open border but they also have

access to these wonderful new global britain trade deals that london will be agreeing so they got the best or pos words both to the people in northern and to a lot of the queen they don't want to be they don't want special treatment they just want to be as good you u.k. citizens anyone else and they think that as time goes on and the trade differences between you can you get bigger the gap between northern are than the rest of the u.k. will become great bigger and then there was sort of on the slippery slope towards united on which they want to avoid italy let's talk a little bit about timing as we said johnson had sworn he would leave the e.u. by october 31st but now he submitted this very very ambivalent request to the e.u. for an extension take us through that if you would well doris johnston said he would rather die in a ditch and then he was the later than october 31st now he's snogged that he may be but he's not that what he did is something very unusual he sends because by law by

the bend i actually was free quiet to ask for an extension so he sent that letter demanding an extension but without signing it and probably without putting a stop on the letter maybe even smudging me a little bit and then he sent another letter which he sighed where he says well you know i'm actually against the extension which was of course playing to his base that was all part of his posturing and you know he said great theatrical fia to make it so that's what do this you know he he would need an extension it's impossible to get it through by the end of the month but because he promised he wouldn't do that to you he does this hold for a day off not signing the letter and pretending you know he's doing something he's obliged to do because it's and nice impose it on him so it seems the ball is now in brussels court and from what we're hearing decision makers there are torn between frustration and the fervent desire to ensure an orderly withdrawal let's go now to w.'s brussels bureau chief max hoffman. hi max

help you a cab here and say yes we can you tell me 1st of all what is the mood in brussels are people there basically saying we have just got to get this thing over well 1st of all the mood is that the ball is not at all in the court of the european union but they still feel they need guidance by boris johnson what's the plan because as you know the braggs a deal is on ice even the break that the withdrawal bill which is the legislation behind the deal is on ice at the moment and boris johnson has always said if there is an extension that he will pull that bill and he will call for a snap elections so does he really want to do that how much time would he need to do that if not he still wants to pass the deal how long will it take him to get it through the u.k. house of commons if at all and the thinking here is if we know how long he needs to do that then we'll give him that maybe 5 days extra and then allow the time he needs but so far no signals like that from the u.k.

so there is frustration about that and you know it's been going on for 3 and a half years it's no miracle that many here just want to get it over with but with a deal so what's your guess where this is how this is going to play out when will we have a decision out of brussels and what kind of timeframe do you think will then be talking about you ambassadors met wednesday and it appeared that in the room they were all in favor of an extension the question is just how long the french want to shore technical extension maybe even 3 to 4 weeks and countries like germany say given the extension they asked for which is until the 31st of january they will meet again on friday and might get a decision there what they want to avoid at all costs is another summit another brags that summit that gives even more attention to boris johnson next off month thank you very much for being with us. so let's pick up on that john and come back to this general election idea that you had mentioned in your opening statement

now boris johnson it said if in fact it's a long extension he will maybe want to go through with a general election but apparently his party is very divided so what's your assessment 1st of all on where the tories stand and then we're going to talk a little bit about labor so basically the conservative party thinks it could win a general election it's 10 percentage points ahead of the labor party in the opinion polls boris johnson is more popular than jeremy kolbe in the labor party leader but the conservatism nervous because they were also 10 pin points ahead in the opinion polls back in 2017 and look what happened there because jeremy tobin calls up then with a reason maybe then conservative leader is also the case that many conservatives want to get breaks it done and say that breaks its own 1st and then have a general election because the population will infanticide having managed to get britain out of the european union because there is that gentleman waiting in the wings knowledge will for all of the worry well known member of the european

parliament who will come roaring back he will essentially say this brics deal that boris johnson has negotiated that's not a real bright sit we want a real and radical brights it out and out now and boris johnson fears that he would new support to the brics policy and that might allow opposition parties in and so that's the reason for the nervousness winter is also coming and no one really likes doing election campaigns in november and december when it's rainy and cold and unpleasant and that might also mean that election turnouts may also be down so it would be a very very strange election but ultimately only violence i still think the conservatives will go for that because they see the weakness of the labor party and where does labor play out in all of this we heard now the chairman corbin is saying yes he might want to go on a go ahead with a general election what would likely be the result. it's for labor i think it could be disastrous he seems to be getting into the detail of that with just days nobody

wants to hear any detail the more it's a binary decision brags that now yes no and he's saying this deal that has been negotiated is worse than trees and maize deal that it would undermine workers' rights and so on in the u.k. because britain might want to sort of undercut the rest of the european union and becomes a competitive singapore in the thames but this is he's getting into detail at the end of the day to people trust german core and i think the answer is really no and there's been this terribly damaging thing about the summit but anti-semitism within the labor party labor party has been consuming itself i mean it almost doesn't need an opposition party like the tories it's fighting itself i don't really know how to try to the proposition labor is at the moment this leader but of course that's for the bridge voters to decide that labor but now has a relatively clear position it says it wants a 2nd you referendum it's taken labor 3 years to come to a relatively clear position so ultimately if you want britain to remain in the european union you can have relatively safely vote for either labor all the little democrats or the greens always cultures national party whichever might have the

best chance in the constituency in which you live that might save them but a 2nd referendum 2 years ago perhaps by the fence enthusiasm at this stage even friends of mine who want to stay in the european union they say even they are saying get pregnant on which is a classic tory populists expression clearly the outcome of any vote would depend on public opinion as and as we're hearing opinion in britain is increasingly polarized let's hear the voices of some of those who went onto the streets just this past week to speak out. but he did a very very well i know it and i mean. we don't want anyone reading i think the majority we operate in. london is a terrible deal for the country and it's a terrible deal for the poorest people in the country. as a bridge here i'm disgusted with those delays.

bush wants to push through fridge. away where we can have a say on it just decide to throw recently he wants to be we're going to close out the door which of course not the way we're through all through this door the local borders are pretty. the battle lines are drawn what does the big georgie of britain want. let's get ventilating to tell us that what the majority in britain want and given the level of polarization that we see there would a new election resolve anything at all. well it would give boris johnson probably a farm a mandate because remember he's not elected he's never been elected to the post of prime minister and at the moment the mood in the country seems to be that seems to be that the majority that he would get a majority if you have elections tomorrow so he's of course keen on that because it

would strengthen him and strengthen his hold on. and if he did get a majority is there any chance that he would back out of this deal that the european research group the hard line breaks it 2 years possibly would gain more influence that they could use to push through a kind of a no deal solution would you is there any chance we'd see some kind of radical development like that i think that's unlikely because although it's not a good deal in the forest johnson is afraid and he's worried about the chaos that could ensue with a no deal breaks and he's he's intelligent enough and pragmatic enough to know how dangerous it is and they could have not quite a civil war but i mean really chaotic scenes in britain so he's very keen to avoid at all this grandstanding to say you know rather die that it will be all the stuff that he's been saying was just to apply more pressure it order to get a deal done he always wanted an agreement i'm i'm quite certain of that derek. we

talked about the majority of what they want in britain but where do people in scotland and ireland stand it has often been said that one of the terrible side effects of bracks it could be essentially breaking apart the united kingdom do you think that is where we're heading what are people in ireland in scotland saying now you know what people in ireland were you know there's no good breaks it but of all the breaks deals this is this is fine we just agree on this what was just the current break the deal because the primary achievement of the irish government in dublin was no board at the start of school for the last 20 years was preserved but there's a big asterisk beside that and that asterisk is that all this technical stuff of trade and collecting tyra fs and the northern are we do we actually don't know how trade will work between the british isles and future so there's a big if well will this actually work and on the other hand people unarmed are wondering eventually people annoying i would realise have gotten the court quite a sweetheart deal if it works but then the question is why didn't the scots go.

we've already seen those coming out and so so the only intend to love unintended consequences could be that we kept the border open between northern ireland on the republic but what happens if scotland gets up some momentum and this is like the steroids that the nationalists in scotland have been needed to break away so you know we could have saved our than the broken of the u.k. . on our neighbor island so yeah who knows where it's going. next. john there is a palpable sense longing for a resolution we heard max saying there's a that that's the case in brussels we heard people in that film talking about their wish for yes resolution yes experts are saying that even if a breck's that deal goes through let's say by the end of the year or early next year there will still then be another chapter of wrangling of uncertainty surrounding trade because. britain will then have to very quickly

negotiate new bilateral trade agreements with the e.u. its biggest trading partner and with its long 4 partner the us is that process truly going to be as difficult and painful as what we've seen along the brics it it will probably be even worse although maybe it won't have quite the kind of public sort of debate it's going to be much more time consuming and much more complex than what we've seen so far and the idea should be that the framework for that deal should even be in place by the end of 2020 so just over 12 months from now which is impossible to achieve so ultimately we might get over this deadline now but we've got another deadline coming up in just over 12 months which is going to have to probably so be extended and also if we look at for example it took the european union 7 years to negotiate a trade deal with canada and that was about much more minimal issues and britain is going to have to negotiate a trade deal with the european union so we're going to be looking at something of upwards of 5 years to get everything sorted out for the trade deal between the u.k.

and the european union if you're tired of bret's it the best way is to say essentially hold a 2nd referendum and stay and then lease to the sort of could if waiting for the next deadline will go away if you actually go through with this now and this is only the 1st of a series of deadlines which are going to be coming up in the next few years so maybe it won't be the topic of every discussion so much more but this is going to be a nightmare for a decade for the u.k. if they do see this through let's see whether either of your fellow guests think that that could really still be an option referendum and backing away from rex it at all then dealing can you even imagine that that could still be an option i agree with eric i think that is highly unlikely but i think it was a time let's say he ago when there was a lot of momentum for a 2nd referendum and the economists in favor of that because we argued that the 1st time they people really didn't know what they were voting on so so. we thought with

a heavy heart because normally one obviously must respect the results of a referendum we thought a 2nd referendum is a good idea but i think by now the time was it's too late so that window of opportunity has closed and i think it's highly unlikely that derek in no way john's argument is premised on people voting on the basis of facts and projections and the clear but help it's between costs and benefits of bracks it looks like it probably will be negative for great britain to put it mildly yet that's really not what people are deciding on the basis of is it aren't we looking at something that has become as we saw in the film absolutely emotional i think it always was emotional it's always been a very deep need it's a struggle within the british soul who are we are we part of something bigger are we better off alone and the detail is just distracting us and you can really see it as you know living in our land we know the british quite well probably about

another people in europe because of our interesting history but i find it really telling that nobody in britain really if any other country in europe it held up a continent for 3 years i think some people would be embarrassed props and it would be a shame some people might apologize they feel that they can do this for another 3 years perhaps and i don't know if the rest of europe is really interested would be more extensions and talk extension the patients and so on but this notion i think even be wanted in the european union at this stage nobody in britain seems to be asking that question it's one thing to say we'd like to stay as anyone else really want them at this stage because if they stay there would be effectively of political civil war in the country they will not be very productive european union members on the other side if they go up a current movement bearing in mind that there is a majority of the british population that wants to remain we saw more than 1000000 people on the streets of london just a week ago all being the case for remain in the european union unfolding a 2nd referendum 60000000 not yet. yeah i know but you're not going to get

a 1000000 leavers going out demonstrating and there's never been a group that kind of groundswell of support you what the biggest grassroots pro your movement of any european country is in the u.k. just now is it too late you might argue but bear in mind however there is no deal but you can get through the current house of commons because there is no majority for anything the only majority that is for anything is against no deal and so ultimately what's your way of of i'm looking all of this you've tried to look at 3 parliamentary means over the last 3 years that's ultimately failed a new election may unlock it but again as we've discussed it may not so ultimately the solution if you really can bear with it is essential to say a new election remain polities try to manage to organize as best they can to try to at least deny the conservatives a majority and then you move forward to a 2nd referendum some point in the middle of 2020 because it might not be no use for the european union but it's definitely the east west out that assumes the we

didn't have the detail back then and the whole purpose of a 2nd referendum is if people knew the detail they will vote differently people are not going to read to tito's ireland is the controversial end and people go and vote and referendum european treaties and we ask them what they're voting on they haven't read anything but so were sunni people who will now that they have to detail will will willingly make themselves more informed than before but we've had 3 or 4 years of poise and they're just going to vote with their gut like they did the last time you were. based on current opinion polls they will vote to remain but very tightly and thereby through the starlight but again but the other alternative putting britain out with an inadequate deal and with all of the tensions that we've discussed about ireland is also about solution so ultimately you've got to choose the least worst solution here and the least with solution remains an election followed by by reference so then delayed let me get you to weigh in here and i'm going to come back to our title because. i'm going to ask all of you to answer that title question can westminster seal a deal is the title question john in a way is saying no where do. you stand and if you say yes when and what's it going

to look like oh gosh cut to the point so yes i think westminster can strike at the end it's not going to be a good day and it's not going to be pretty but i think i think we are now maybe on the way of doing nothing when this the big question i think the most likely that the 31st of january they are going to ask for an extension of the festival but i mean with with a big question mark but that at the moment i think is the most likely time to assume my answer is yes it can strike a deal and the most likely deadline this is the 1st of. unfortunately i breaks my heart to say it but the european union is more important things not to discuss than britain britain's problems need to be solved in britain so i say we're having hard go with god but go and when when will it happen most of all because then we can get back to what's really important the european union's future in the world trying to battle between populist trying to battle what's what's our security is your water

our migration policies what kind of europe do we want britain has been distracting us from. and in other words you're saying westminster will seal the deal and farewell and we might want to apologize for wasting our time for 3 years but i don't expect out of college and a lot of good talk shows out of it haven't we john last word to you are you saying westminster won't seal a deal westminster once this westminster this composition the house of commons won't seal a deal it needs a general election after the general election you get this deal because boris johnson is strengthened or alternatively britain is on the track to a 2nd right. ok thanks very much to all of you will see his prediction comes true and thanks to you out there for joining in see you again on to the point.

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