Tusk urges Remainers to keep the faith at the College of Europe tonight - that’s the Bruges postgrad place wannabe EU officials
It's @eucopresident swansong before he heads off to lead conservative, “Christian Democrat”, EPP

His “irreversible” line (a re-run) is a reference to Arendt, who, he claims, is one of his heroines (credit to him if he means it). Of course, Draghi and others always tell us, that the euro is irreversible and like the rest of the EU alternativlos

Tusk fesses up and admits his support for the 3 Brexit delays have been for the purpose of Remain via extension (as Blair, Clegg, Starmer and others regularly plead in their meetings with him)

Tusk reminds the Bruges college that 30 odd years ago they heard from Thatcher - he doesn’t not reprise the Eurosceptic best, obviously - but expresses his admiration

Her support of Polish workers was opportunistic. She crushed British trade unions She happily sucked up to to Jaruzelski when she wanted Polish coal to break the miners

She was right on the great cities of central and Eastern Europe, as Tusk points out, but was, in truth, as a conservative opposed to the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact https://twitter.com/BrunoBrussels/status/867495575725494273

Finally, Tusk does give us an important insight.
Brexit fundamentally undermines any reality to lingering conceits over British Empire (a good thing)
Leaving the EU is a setback to the humanitarian and other imperialists, such as Blair et al. Something I pick up all the time

He notes: “after its departure, the UK will become an outsider”, it’ll be outside the imperial club - and more

Long live "the real end of the British Empire", say I