BBC 4 Brexit: Behind Closed Doors

The EU had a crack negotiating team and a strategy. To play hard ball to dissuade any other country from thinking it would be easy to slip off the handcuffs.

I don’t blame them in the least. They have their rules and their four freedoms which are indivisible. Good fir them.

It was our own fudged soft strategy that failed. Mrs May giving away far too much at the beginning in the spirit of cooperation and niceness.

And look where it got us. Beyond embarrassing!

Whitewavemark2, I agree this mess is the responsibility of the Tories, Cameron for the mess made of the referendum and Mays lot since then. Like you, I question how they can be trusted.
My but is with Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. He spoke yesterday again, stressing he’d make labours position clear. I met up with six people who traditionally vote Labour, no one had a clear view of its policy. Well, except for agreement Jc wants out of Europe but won’t be clear about that. Is Seamus Milne the real labour leader?
What a shameful mess and muddle and whilst it’s largely down to the Conservatives, the Labour Party has contributed

The Tory Government is entirely responsible for the utter mess we are in.

I watched this programme and felt just as everyone else did on this thread.

Watching was cringe making. How can the Tories ever be trusted to do anything ever again?

We are in a mess and it's all our own making. After the referendum I heard somwhere that we didn't have negotiators of sufficient calibre and it looks like they were right. That and we don't know what we want, it's everything we thought, only much worse. The consequences are dire and we will be living with them for decades.

Agree with Iam. What a mess.

srn63
Yes, I agree with what you say. I hoped the EU would show themselves in a poor light, but we just looked hopeless. No real idea about anything, and our negotiating skills abysmal. What a mess it all is!

Shocking and shaming of our negotiators. The Others were more intelligent, focussed on working together - we are doomed 😱

It was pretty obvious that the EU hasn't got what it wants, which is for us to stay. They were bending over backwards to help, even though knowing the referendum was a fraud, but May and Davis were determined to make the EU out to be the villains. All that talk of 'punishment' was cringeworthy