{"product_id":"blind-mans-brexit-how-the-eu-took-control-of-brexit","title":"Lode Desmet: Blind Man's Brexit [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Essential reading for anyone anxious to understand the background to the Brexit debate' \u003ci\u003eTablet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith all the political infighting in British politics over Brexit dominating the news cycle, we almost forgot who we were negotiating with. Now, in \u003ci\u003eBlind Man's Brexit\u003c\/i\u003e, we get to see and hear exactly what was going on in the corridors of power in Brussels, and how the EU comprehensively outmanoeuvred the UK government.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Lode Desmet met \u003cb\u003eGuy Verhofstadt\u003c\/b\u003e, the European Parliament's representative on \u003cb\u003eBrexit\u003c\/b\u003e, about filming a fly-on-the-wall documentary on the negotiations, he could never have imagined the unique access he would be granted and the extraordinary story that he would end up filming. As the cameras rolled, Lode sat in on private conversations with chief negotiator \u003cb\u003eMichel Barnier\u003c\/b\u003e and saw first hand how \u003cb\u003eTheresa May\u003c\/b\u003e's government's negotiating positions were knocked back time after time. The results were aired in the BBC documentary series \u003ci\u003eBrexit: Behind Closed Doors\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Written with distinguished political commentator Edward Stourton, who also provides a British perspective on events, \u003ci\u003eBlind Man's Brexit\u003c\/i\u003e goes beyond the documentary to reveal a staggering and \u003cb\u003eunprecedented failure of diplomacy\u003c\/b\u003e on one side and contrasts the very clearly defined aims and goals of the EU side. Many books have attempted to tell the story of what happened, but this one has completely unfiltered access to events as viewed by the EU, and \u003cb\u003eshows exactly why, how and where the Brexit negotiations went so spectacularly wrong\u003c\/b\u003e, resulting in our departure from the EU being delayed beyond 29 March 2019 as the UK was left in limbo and its political system in disarray.","brand":"Desmet, Lode","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44515633955106,"sku":"9781471186424","price":9.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/desmet-lode-lode-desmet-blind-man-s-brexit-2019-hardback-9781471186424-60297512943955.jpg?v=1733378888","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/blind-mans-brexit-how-the-eu-took-control-of-brexit","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}