I’d suggest we negotiated in public for our home audience(remember the comparison to the Iron Lady headlines and the like)?
The trouble is the UK government has never pre-closed at home first I.e what can we live with, this was shown in the BBC EU documentary a few months ago around Cameron’s negotiations
We play to the gallery here, go there, reality hits, we agree on something which usually results in several concessions from the EU, then come home only for the hecklers(Farage) and the extremists(Redeood, Mogg etc) to say it’s not good enough with the Mail and Express cheerleading and send them back. Much to the incumbent PM and EU’s annoyance
Maybe we are at cross purposes but I’m halfway through my 4th can.....