I was referring to “The conditions for associating the UK were not opportune, in view of the overall EU-UK relationship”, but there are other sentences like that in the document. It’s a diplomat’s way of calling them untrustworthy bastards. Which is fair (they are referring to May, Johnson and Truss, all of them are liars of the worst sort), but I do wish the facts were otherwise.

I don’t blame the EC for saying it, I just regret that the UK took such a destructive path.