The French can’t have their cake and eat it

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🇫🇷 'Our defence relationship with France is deep, strategic and important. But it will only move to another level if France stops treating us as a renegade state needing to be punished for Brexit' | Writes Jeremy_Hunt

One of the French phrases I learnt quickly as foreign secretary was “On ne peut avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre”, which literally means “you can’t have the butter and the money from selling it”. A more familiar translation would be “you can’t have your cake and eat it” – and this was the message that France hammered home with boring repetitiveness during the Brexit negotiations.

 

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Jeremy_Hunt They're not treating you like that. You left the EU. You signed an agreement which you want to break. You conspired behind the french back to mess up their contract to sell subs.

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