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ICYMI, Prime Minister Theresa May is "deluded" when it comes to Brexit.

German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ) published this utterly scathing report on a dinner between Theresa May and EU President Jean-Claude Juncker.

After what sounds like a spectacular omnishambles of a meeting between May, Juncker and Brexit secretary David Davis, Juncker phoned Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel to call May "deluded" and "in another galaxy" when it comes to Brexit.

The anecdotes reported in FAZ come from someone on the EU side, and they suggest arrogance, insouciance and ignorance on the part of the Prime Minister.

Don't worry if your German isn't all that gut - Jeremy Cliffe, chief of the Berlin Bureau at The Economist, has helpfully translated the salient points for us in an epic thirty-tweet thread of doom.

To all those who support Brexit: you should be very, very worried.

To everyone else: you are already

He begins by pulling absolutely no punches:

It really just goes from bad to worse. Steel yourself and read the entire thread:

HT Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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