Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
One of the skills of being a good negotiator is to appear inept - it disarms the other side.Others include never to reveal at what point you won't do a deal, don't negotiate in public, tell your own side only enough to keep them on board but no more than that, make the other side think they got a great deal and tell your own side the same, etc.

Sometimes I think Theresa May is smarter than many people think.
But I don't understand how that applies to Mrs May. She's already agreed to hand over 40billion without anything in return. And now she has effectively told them at what point she won't do a deal with the Chequers 'take it or leave it' offer.


I thought the same about her at one point Graham. Was she about to pull a rabbit out of the hat. Then I decided that the rabbit was no way near the hat to be pulled out from.