A negotiator with no notes?

This week we saw David Davis arrive in Brussels in order to make a serious start on the details of the Brexit negotiations. As we can see from the above photograph, unlike his French counterpart, Michel Barnier, he has absolutely no documents with him!

Most people would not even set up a cell phone contract or an insurance policy, let alone buy a car or a house, without the relevant documentation. This UK politician turns up to the most significant international contract negotiation in my lifetime, responsible for the fates of 65,000,000 people, with not one piece of paper.

What’s more, after just half a day, he flew back to the UK.

What does this tell us about David Davis?

• there is no way that he can be taking these critical negotiations seriously and that he has already disqualified himself for the job
• that he is unbelievably arrogant if he thinks that he can achieve the best for the UK after just half a day and with no briefing materials
• that he has absolutely no notion of diplomacy since his actions are insulting to his European counterparts, also his hosts in this case, in a field where relationships are already very tense
• that he is insulting also the British people who have, at least in their peculiar concept of democracy, delegated an enormous amount of responsibility to this man
• that he is co-responsible for defaming the word “politician”, which not only insults those who try their best to perform this difficult role with integrity but also reduces the chances of gaining the respect of younger people whose understandable political apathy led in part to the disastrous Brexit in the first place
• that the man is a complete idiot, bringing him closer to his ultimate goal of becoming the next prime minister, since all of the above makes him the ideal candidate both to lead the UK Conservative Party and replace Theresa May, n’est-ce pas ?