Got no reverse gear, dudes. Photograph: PA
Tony Blair to Parliament earlier today when asked about the imminent bunfight in Brussels over Britain's EU budget rebate:
The UK rebate will remain and we will not negotiate it away. Period.
"Period"? Has someone, like, just come back from the States, or what?
If we didn't know better we'd think the prime minister deliberately used an Americanism to double snub the EU with a show of defiant Atlanticist syntax. Heck yeah, Tony! Why not? Run it up the flag pole see who salutes. It's a no brainer.
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