What we know and what they won't tell us

Today, in a written answer, the Government admitted that it had commissioned and completed 58 impact assessments on the various impacts of the different scenarios related to leaving the EU. Only, they are refusing to release any of them for any one to read.

In fact, ti appears that no one has really read them, not even the PM of DD. In an interesting answer last week to a Parliamentary committee, DD seemed to suggest that the framework for the reports was incorrect and so the findings unreliable. Only, as the Minister responsible, he would have signed off on the criteria. So is he lying or incompetent. Or both? The Government is still holding to the line that releasing them would show the EU what the effects would be, weakening Britain's negotiating position.

Only, Britain doesn't really have a position. On anything.

There is a case being brought to court to force the Government to release the assessments. It might succeed. But of course, in a sensible county, the assessments would have been carried out and released BEFORE the referendum, so that people would have known what they were voting for, knowing the consequences.

But that would be sensible, wouldn't it, as people would rather believe a lie written on the side of a bus that actually have, you know, facts.

I will leave you with this thought on a different matter:

Today indictments were handed down in the USA to former members of Donald Trump's election campaign relating to lying to the FBI earlier in relation to links to Russia and Russians. We know that Trump only says good things about Putin and has rather believed Putin's word rather than the USA's own security agencies relating to Russian interference. Then there is the release my Wikileaks of documents that only damaged HRC's campaign, leaks that almost certainly came from Russian sources. Someone was the intermediary between Trump's team and Julian Assange hiding in a broom cupboard in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. And who was that seen exiting the Ecuadorian Embassy by the back door a few months ago? Nigel Farrage. Asked what he was doing there, replied he could not remember. Who was the first person to visit Trump Tower after the election last November to congratulate Donald Trump? Nigel Farrage. And which organisation helped both the Trump election and the Brexit referendum in targeting people of social media. Cambridge Analitica. You will hear a lot about this company in the next few months, and the links between Trump, his election team, Farrage, Wikileaks, Russia and CA.