Wednesday 6th December 2017
Posted: Wed 06 Dec, 2017 7:10 am
Morning all.
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Having a bad morning? Well, you could be David Davis, who in ten minutes has to explain to the Brexit select committee why the Brexit impact assessments are in fact a few hastily-scrawled post-it notes tied up with old string.
So he's asking for the resignation of the team who agreed that we could not move on to trade talks until the three initial questions were resolved to the satisfaction of all members of the EU?We will come up with a solution but the important thing is that that solution can only be discovered in the context of discussions on the end-state of the UK’s relations with the rest of the EU.
Yes, Peter Walker is struggling with this too.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Don't conclude that if you have looked at the impact that you have written an impact assessment.
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David Davis tells Brexit committee that Brexit impact assessments are “not a forecast of the outcome of leaving the EU, or various options thereof". Not 100% clear what they are.
I was actually going to say 'just because you have assessed the impact of something it doesn't follow that you have carried out an impact assessment'. That appears to be what he's saying.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Don't conclude that if you have looked at the impact that you have written an impact assessment.
Exactly.adam wrote:I was actually going to say 'just because you have assessed the impact of something it doesn't follow that you have carried out an impact assessment'. That appears to be what he's saying.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Don't conclude that if you have looked at the impact that you have written an impact assessment.
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David Davis just told @CommonsEUexit - we have not done "a quantitative economic forecast of outcome" of Brexit. "The Government has not written an impact assessment". Read my thread below and see how many times the Government has misled Parliament and the public:
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Thread: at 09:30 @CommonsEUexit meeting to discuss redacted and edited Brexit economic impact assessments. Is Govnt in contempt of Parliament? Did the Govnt mislead Parliament and the public? Did the reports ever exist in the first place? Let's look at the evidence (1)
Which is astonishing, but not surprising.Jacob Rees-Mogg, a Conservative, says is is concerned about the government honouring parliament. If these impact assessments did not exist, the government did not have to publish anything, did it?
Davis agrees.
Q: So the government has generously gone beyond what was required?
Davis accepts that.
Rees-Mogg says the government looked at the wording of “an incompetent motion” and did its best to comply.
The BBC are focusing on the lack of proper impact assessments, which is bad enough, rather than David Davis repeatedly lying to and misleading parliament, which in normal circumstances would lead to him resigning in disgrace. Now we're down the rabbit hole, who knows what will happen. He'll probably get promoted to Chancellor or something.PorFavor wrote:Is this really happening - or am I still asleep and dreaming it all?
That was very noticeable just now.Willow904 wrote: The BBC are focusing on the lack of proper impact assessments, which is bad enough, rather than David Davis repeatedly lying to and misleading parliament,
Richard Graham, a Conservative, goes next.
Q: How would you be able to do an impact assessment for the financial sector without know what the Brexit outcome will be, or whether there will be a free trade deal with the US?
With difficulty, Davis says. He says it would be very hard because there are so many potential outcomes.
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BREAK: DUP sources confirm party leader Arlene Foster currently speaking to the Prime Minister on the phone. #Brexit
10:31 AM - Dec 6, 2017 (Politics Live, Guardian)
Schrödinger's Impact Assessments.Willow904 wrote:Most people are assuming the sectoral assessments never existed, but logically we only know that David Davis has made contradictory statements - that there are sectoral impact asessments in "excruciating detail" and that no sectoral impact assessments exist. How do we know for sure, however, which statement is true? Were there never any assessments and he mislead when he said there were? Or do they exist and after getting caught out by a parliamentary motion forcing him to hand them over Davis is misleading us now about their existence to cover up the fact he is still withholding them?
Do we have any real way to know for sure?
DUP should be directly involved in Brexit talks, Foster says
Henry McDonald
DUP Arlene Foster was due to ask Theresa May if her party can have a seat at the Brexit negotiations.
Foster was likely to raise that prospect with the prime minister today. Ahead of her phone call to May, the former first minister of Northern Ireland said:
There is a need for us to be directly involved. (Politics Live, Guardian)
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PM brandishes a leaflet where a candidate did claim that Labour would cancel student debt
And what is even sadder is that so many hacks were impressed by itRogerOThornhill wrote:Faisal IslamVerified account
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PM brandishes a leaflet where a candidate did claim that Labour would cancel student debt
Christ, that's desperate.
"Your minister lied about having impact assessments"
"Yes but look what someone said about student debt!"
This won't do. May's got an incapacity for reasonable engagement and her ministers can't resolve significant difficulty. This government is dysfunctional.RogerOThornhill wrote:Faisal IslamVerified account
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PM brandishes a leaflet where a candidate did claim that Labour would cancel student debt
Christ, that's desperate.
"Your minister lied about having impact assessments"
"Yes but look what someone said about student debt!"
Fraser's support for this Tory Brexit is utterly dismaying. I don't share his religious affiliation but I admired some of his past work. I can't make heads or tails out of the man at this point. I'm staggered by it.NonOxCol wrote:FUCK ME!
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Sorry, but....HONESTLY. Even for him.
Select Committee on Exiting the European Union Oral evidence: The progress of the UK's negotiations on EU withdrawal, HC372 Wednesday 25th October 2017Seema Malhotra: Could I ask you another question? You have answered that question; that was very helpful. Has the Prime Minister seen the impact assessments that have been published, yes or no?
Mr Davis: The details of them? Sorry, did you say “have been published”?
Seema Malhotra: Sorry, I am just asking whether she has seen the impact assessments. A yes or no answer is fine.
Mr Davis: Which ones? I will give a proper answer; I do not give yes/no answers.
Seema Malhotra: I mean the impact assessments that you have not published.
Mr Davis: That we have not published?
Seema Malhotra: Yes.
Mr Davis: She will know the summary outcomes of them. She will not necessarily have read every single one. They are in excruciating detail.
He is as monomaniacal as some of the #STOPBREXIT brigade on the other side.citizenJA wrote:Fraser's support for this Tory Brexit is utterly dismaying. I don't share his religious affiliation but I admired some of his past work. I can't make heads or tails out of the man at this point. I'm staggered by it.NonOxCol wrote:FUCK ME!
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Philip Hammond says Cabinet has not formally agreed a Brexit "end state" for the UK.
He told the Treasury Select Committee: "We haven't had a specific mandating of an end state position."
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Understand Brexit Committee reconvening soon to debate its view on whether Davis fulfilled terms of binding resolution on impact studies or whether it is contempt
2:47 PM - Dec 6, 2017 (Politics Live, Guardian)