The Lib Dems’ only MEP and general Scrooge Catherine Bearder has shut down her UK office, throwing two former UK staff members into the lurch less than a month before Christmas. They were handed their notice at the end of November. Co-conspirators tell Guido that Bearder is causing a lot of problems for the Lib Dems, who apparently advised her to not shut the office. The move to shut down the office makes it seem to Guido as if Bearder is not all that confident about the Lib Dems’ signature policy of stopping Brexit…

⚠ Revealed in @Channel4‘s #CarryOnBrussels: British MEP @catherinemep and @acgrayling call on the European Parliament Brexit co-ordinator @guyverhofstadt to be “very, very tough and uncompromising on a deal” in the hope that the UK begs to rejoin the bloc pic.twitter.com/yinKyexYWe

— BrexitCentral (@BrexitCentral) May 31, 2018

At a meeting in Brussels, Remoaner-in-chief AC Grayling tells Guy Verhofstadt:

“What would help the Remain movement in the UK: if the EU is very, very tough and uncompromising on a deal.”

… As LibDem MEP Catherine Bearder watches on. These Remainers want the UK to be punished for exercising democracy…