>> I think cliff's point is more about the degrees of separation between themselves and the
>> electorate on each side.
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"none of the negotiators on the EU side appear to be answerable to anyone, least of all an electorate."
....doesn't read like that to me.
Nonetheless, negotiators who are acting on behalf of 27 different sovereign states as a grouping are patently going to be doing so in a different model to those who are acting on behalf of a single one (there is by design going to be at least one more degree of complication - note, however, that whilst the EU negotiators are answerable to the EU, they are also answerable in parallel to the individual states - ultimately through each of their political heads; a position which would be not much different from that of the UK negotiators if it weren't for the fact that Ms May seems to want to do most of it herself!).
And, reading the OP, if one were to take another, only mildly cynical, view, one could postulate that Ms May has only just survived answering for her job to her party, and is fervently avoiding the same with her parliament, and her electors. ;-)
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