By "we" I take it you mean the Tories, Cllr? Caroline Spelman MP, a Tory frontbencher, said on BBC Question Time on Thursday that 28 days was the most the Tories had been prepared to consider so therefore there would have been little purpose in negotiating. I am a socialist through and through, but I have no difficulty (for once) in saying good for the Tories. Except that even 28 days is too much in my view.