defeatist attitude already in place at all levels of the army then Gort was probably right to pull back to the channel and scarper
That's a question that nobody can answer. But Gort's acitons were viewed as very defeatist, even cowardly, by the French, especially as he effectively abandoned about 34000 French soldiers who were defending the rearguard to annihilation by the Luftwaffe and vastly superior numbers of German attackers.