What is Davis trying to hide ?
The people should be told.
Perhaps he now has to go ?
My views on money are pretty clear, I don’t like spending money so I would have told the EU in particular to sod off with their excessive financial demands.
http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/docs/2013/june/tradoc_151381.pdf
No. After all, it is pretty much in line with the EU's own factsheet on 'Transparency in EU trade negotiations'.
“A certain level of confidentiality is necessary to protect EU interests and to keep chances for a satisfactory outcome high. When entering into a game, no-one starts by revealing his entire strategy to his counterpart from the outset: this is also the case for the EU.”
The hypocrisy over Brexit impact reports continues.
Davis claimed yesterday "there are not a series of discrete impact assessments arising out of our analysis of the 58 sectors”
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Priti Patel
Seems like she attacked May last night pretty savagely.
Maybe you wouldn't have opened yourself up for ridicule if you had chosen a vote that the UK actually disagreed with.
Probably about right bearing in mind how many Brits voted out.
The Brexit committee should have had the full disclosure, then in concert with Davis, redacted the parts seen as too sensitive at this time.
Right now the MP's aren't even being told. All the crap about it undermining negotiations is BS and he knows it, its the fear that project fear wasn't project fear, it was project reality.
The Brextremists are playing a high stakes game with all their chips on extreme Brexit, if they are not careful they could end up with no Brexit at all.
The Brexit committee should have had the full disclosure, then in concert with Davis, redacted the parts seen as too sensitive at this time.
The Brexit committee should have had the full disclosure, then in concert with Davis, redacted the parts seen as too sensitive at this time.
Yes, do keep quoting the Guardian and the Independent and the BBC, those well-known apologists for remain, if it makes you feel better. We all know you'd love to have referendum after referendum until you get the 'right' result, or find a way to weasel out of Brexit. I look forward to yet another wish list of things you hope to go wrong with the negotuations tomorrow.Another good news Brexit day...
Think she should just resign as an MP and get a job as a columnist at the Mail. She makes Jacob Rees seem like a reasonable bloke
Is there a missing bombshell in the Brexit documents ?
Almost certainly not. Those in the know tell me they beleive they will probably prove stunningly dull. Infact the most embarrassing thing may just be how flimsy these reports are and how thin the details are about differnet sections of the conomy. Because 850 pages to cover 85% of the British economy is quite an achievement. A couple of paragraphs for the fruit growing sector ? Some bland generalisatins for the fishing industry ? Lawyers at a straightfoward drink driivng court case wd porbably have bigger legal briefs.
Howeverr I'm told David Davis first mentioned he had these 58 impact assessment reports when he was under pressure for not doing his homework. Remember that photo of him turning up for Brexit talks with nothing more than smile on his face ? Well it seems in an effort to show how thorough he was really being , he volunteered the information that he had in fact commissioned these reports into 58 separate areas of the economy.
Sounded impressive at the time.
But now the real political embarrassment may not be what they say (no suprise surely if they show large sections of British industry want to stay in the single market). The real embarrassment may be on how little work has actually been done on the likely impact of brexit on the UK economy.
** Oh...and by the way...the documents haven't been re-dacted or edited. The committee just haven't been given all of them
This is worth a read from David Lammy
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