Should the UK worry about Brexit?
"Bobs" are quite the topic of discussion in the UK right now - people "bored of Brexit", desperate to read, talk and hear about something, anything, else.
But if Bobs are big in the UK, spare a thought for their numbers in the EU.
And I'm not talking men and women at European bus stops. I'm talking about EU governments.
All EU leaders - without exception - go on their winter holidays, delighted to turn their back for 10 days at least on the countless Brexit summits, phone calls and meetings.
"The British prime minister will be hard-pushed to persuade [French President] Emmanuel Macron to return to Brussels for her any time soon," one well-placed source told me.
"Brexit seems to him like a bad version of the never-ending story.
But if Bobs are big in the UK, spare a thought for their numbers in the EU.
And I'm not talking men and women at European bus stops. I'm talking about EU governments.
All EU leaders - without exception - go on their winter holidays, delighted to turn their back for 10 days at least on the countless Brexit summits, phone calls and meetings.
"The British prime minister will be hard-pushed to persuade [French President] Emmanuel Macron to return to Brussels for her any time soon," one well-placed source told me.
"Brexit seems to him like a bad version of the never-ending story.
