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A pretty damning assessment from the Former UK ambassador to the EU.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...ns-ivan-rogers

In an excoriating denunciation of the British political class that goes to the top of government, Ivan Rogers said the Brexit debate had suffered from “opacity, delusion-mongering and mendacity on all sides” and predicted the public would not forgive politicians.

Without naming May, he said the country required “leadership which is far more honest in setting out the fundamental choices still ahead, the difficult trade-offs between sovereignty and national control”.

Since leaving the civil service, he has maintained a low profile, but has offered occasional scathing reviews of British political debate on Brexit in a series of lectures. In October he took aim at the “pinstriped Robespierres” of the anti-EU European Research Group, led by Jacob Rees-Mogg. He has also argued that British delusions and the EU’s technocratic approach mean both sides risk “sleepwalking into a major crisis”.

Criticising some of Labour’s promises on Brexit as implausible, he concludes “too much of our political debate just insults people’s intelligence”.

The next stage of Brexit will be “whether Brexit proponents like it or not, a much longer process”.