{"id":1340,"date":"2018-12-13T20:52:25","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1340"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:52:25","slug":"hard-br-exit-theresa-may-gets-stuck-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/hard-br-exit-theresa-may-gets-stuck-in-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Br-Exit- Theresa May Gets Stuck in Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa May gets locked in her limo.<br \/>\nUK&#8217;s May was briefly trapped in her car on Tuesday, in an unfortunate metaphor for Brexit.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/limo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1341\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/limo-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/limo-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/limo.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The back door of Theresa May&#8217;s car wouldn&#8217;t open, ahead of her meeting with Angela Merkel. The Prime Minister had just arrived in Berlin for a meeting with German Chancellor, to discuss the Northern Ireland backstop.<br \/>\nBut on her arrival, aides struggled to open the back door of her car, lacking a unilateral mechanism to exit from the vehicle. May found herself desperately attempting to make an exit, much like her current Brexit negotiations with the EU.<!--more--><br \/>\nThe awkward moment was captured by photographers and it was quite embarrassing. A video went viral showing Merkel patiently waiting on a red carpet as May, and then her staff struggled to open the back door of the limousine.<br \/>\nSocial media users were quick to crack jokes about Prime Minister\u2019s incompetence, with many drawing comparisons between her being stuck behind the car\u2019s back door and the UK\u2019s inability to get past the issue of the Irish backstop in Brexit talks.<br \/>\nTheresa May has embarked on a whirlwind tour of European capitals to seek reassurances to get her deal through Parliament, after canceling a vote scheduled for Tuesday which she accepted she would lose heavily.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theresa May gets locked in her limo. UK&#8217;s May was briefly trapped in her car on Tuesday, in an unfortunate metaphor for Brexit. The back door of Theresa May&#8217;s car wouldn&#8217;t open, ahead of her meeting with Angela Merkel. The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/hard-br-exit-theresa-may-gets-stuck-in-car\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32,2],"tags":[34,73,15,25,16,10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1340\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}