Quote from Mil-26Man:
"Have you not read the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Sun, or the Daily Express lately? These are all main-stream media."
Yes, their leader-writers are pro-Brexit in one form or another, as are most - but certainly not all - of the articles they publish. That leaves The Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Daily Mirror and Mail on Sunday, all of which are anti, and quietly backing a second referendum. (Some of us have voted twice already, and learned from our mistake first time around.)
But the point I was making is that the vast majority of writers and speakers in/on the various types of MSM, including those claiming to be pro-Brexit, cast the UK in the role of the supplicant when reporting developments.
For example, and here I beg the forbearance of the Moderators: our negotiators, one infers, merely have aspirations; the EU can and will set and enforce the ground rules, cajole and threaten. In practice the EU makes no concessions; we propose concessions which are pocketed and promptly deemed inadequate. Nearly all UK commentators in the MSM accept this tilted playing field. They contemplate yet further concessions, instead of standing our ground on the basis that a deal is preferable but not essential.
The PM - an instinctive Remainer and facing a majority of similarly-minded, Tory MPs - continues dancing to the EU's tune. David Davis, a former Leave campaigner, is more inscrutable. The cabinet's bumbling, but most eloquent Brexiteer, who happens also to represent the UK in foreign affairs, is banned from rallying people to the cause. Labour MPs, and especially their leader, prioritise power over conviction and country, so the fragile PM shrinks from forcing them or her Remainers to put up or shut up.
The reason we must contemplate walking away is that, although a deal acceptable to us need not be detrimental to individual EU countries, its very completion may unravel the sacred, but failing, EU project. Independence can be catching.