Brexit madness

Wednesday 6th December 2017

Today, Tuesday 6th December, was the day in which the Brexit folly was revealed to the country, if the country was interested. At half nine, DD appeared before the commons select committee on Brexit, and admitted that the impact assessments that he had previously said there were 57 or 58 and set out in excruciating detail, did not in fact exist.

There is a chance he is lying about that to cover up the fact they do exist but the assessments are so bad that it is better to lie they don’t exist.

Taking his statement at face value, meaning that the UK Government, nor his department, had bothered to undertake assessments on any of the scenarios of the various flavours of Brexit. And had lied about them existing. And the PM having ready the conclusions, which also do not exist.

Decisions taken on whether to stay in or leave the SM and/or CU were taken with no evidence having been sought or looked at. The EU have done over 30 such studies. And have published them.

The House of Commons are deciding on whether DD is guilty of Contempt of The House, although if he is, no one is sure what his punishment might be, but his position should be untellable.

On top of that, it was revealed that the Cabinet has not yet discussed as to what the goal of the negotiations with the EU should lead, i.e. what it is May and co want from Brexit.

In other words, Britain is leaving the EU not knowing what it wants or what it might cost. It is worse than we could have imagined. Here is a list of things that happened today:

2/ Today Cretinus Maximus @DavidDavisMP appears before the Brexit select committee

3/ I imagine one question will be as to why the impact assessments have as much depth as an After Eight Mint and perhaps also whether there is a deliberate attempt to produce anything to avoid blame when there is a future inquiry

4/ No doubt Cretinus Maximus will make clear to @SeemaMalhotra1 and @hilarybennmp that the will of the people is final and there must be no evidence led decision making any more because otherwise they may take away his Brexit jet

5/ taking away the jet would be a fatal plan for Cretinus Maximus escape route if (🤣🤣🤣) Brexit goes wrong. If he had read the report from the CAA he would know if Brexit goes wrong flights will be mostly grounded anyway on Brexit day

6/ Still at least he could use Eurostar (soon to be Getlink (reserved for traitors being sent to the EU under the "Go European Traitors" scheme - hence Getlink)). Oh no he can't - sorry. There will be no more FOM

7/ Back to the committee we will also learn why the UK is not aligned on the meaning of alignment

8/ Cretinus Maximus will also try to explain the difference between alignment, no divergence, equivalence, recognition and harmonisation using a packet of Revel

9/ Wry observers also noted the HOC and HOL (in an anonymous vote) voted "how to stop Brexit" by Nick Clegg as book of the year

10/ The uninformed observer may query whether MPs know that an advisory referendum means Parliament decides how to stop Brexit and that as Parliament is sovereign they do not need a book, just a backbone and some balls

11/ One wonder if @SeemaMalhotra1 and @hilarybennmp will ask Cretinus Maximus and also Greg Clark about this tweet: It was also the personal opinion of head of department Greg Clark that releasing a comprehensive and unredacted assessment would stop Brexit

12/ Because that would suggest the right level of due diligence has not been undertaken in case the people decide to challenge the will of the people

13/ and the commuter faced with a 3.4% increase in their rail fare and rising food costs may ask why did the Maybot trigger article 50 for, as Cretinus Maximus described it, a one shot negotiation

14/ if the UK was under prepared in understanding how its own economy worked, the commuter may ask how would the U.K. would be affected by Brexit negotiations that would be fundamentally flawed as a result?

15/ Remarkably the Maybot gave the answer in her Lancaster House speech 🤖 - see next tweet

16/ ahem: "And let us do it not for ourselves, but for those who follow. For the country’s children and grandchildren too.

So that when future generations look back at this time, they will judge us not only by the decision that we made, but by what we made of that decision."

17/ For those who may question why the ECJ is such a big issue (especially when the UK wants to remain part of EASA which involves the ECJ), they may be confused by @DominicRaab and his statement on the European Court of Human Rights: Just forced arch Brexiteer Dominic Rabb to confirm at Despatch Box that Post-Brexit the European Court on Human Rights will still have jurisdiction over UK. Worth reminding people as many Leavers didn’t realise that during the referendum

18/ It seems to be that ultra Brexiters have some sort of zombie virus that makes them 🤢😷🤒each time they hear the word "Europe". Perhaps the solution is to rebrand so the EU, ECJ and ECHR have the words "United Kingdom and" added before each of them

19/ Cretinus Maximus is underway. And it turns out @CommonsEUexit are shocked because Cretinus Maximus said @DExEUgov has not done a quantitative economic forecast of the outcome of Brexit and there are no systematic sectoral impact assessments

20/ Cretinus Maximus says just because you use the word impact does not mean you have done an impact assessment. Good job MPs like @DavidLammy are regarding this as total 💩💩💩💩and basically super strength lying

21/ To use a Cretinus Maximus phrase watching this in "excruciating detail" is excruciating. I suspect Cretinus Maximus may be off to the MPs prison under Big Ben later today

22/ Cretinus Maximus does not like economic models because they are all proven wrong. The casual observer may wonder why any business ever does any planning and forecasting

23/ A new born baby with no concept of anything may also wonder whether some economic modelling is PRETTY FUCKING FUNDAMENTAL to negotiations that will take the UK out of the entire regulatory framework governing its economy at breakneck speed

24/ Cretinus Maximus says the EU will not be conducting an assessment on a similar scale. No, they have actually done it and you can read it here

25/ Cretinus Maximus says there is major contingency planning but obviously not based on any impact assessments. Does he mean that is why he wants a Brexit jet?

26/ The UK voter may conclude that Cretinus Maximus has lied to Parliament and the entire Government has been complicit. Good job Brexit was about accountable democracy being brought closer to home

27/ The neutral observer could reach no other conclusion than that given Cretinus Maximus told the select committee that the Maybot had seen a summary of the Brexit impact assessments.

28/ At this point it seems timely to refer you to tweets 3 and 4 of this thread which were written this morning before Cretinus Maximus appeared before the @CommonsEUexit

29/ Cretinus Maximus tries to redeem himself by waffling on about the amount of time spent on Brexit but neglects to point out most of it has been spent in a blind panic with most civil servants hiding in the stationary cupboard whimpering softly

30/ Cretinus Maximus emboldened goes on to say that at some point he will commission new studies to quantify the effects of different negotiating outcomes

31/ A 2 year old may point out that was that not what he said had been done previously, how does one reconcile that with his earlier statement about economic modelling, how does this fit with the one shot negotiation and why on earth trigger article 50 if you are not read

32/ I hope you my find my daily threads funny but truth be told what we learned today is shameful, deceitful, lazy, arrogant, disrespectful and the behaviour of a bunch of fraudsters. This is our future they are consciously destroying. What do I say to my kids

33/ Time for all MPs to act in the national interest and stop this. MPs you cannot hide waiting for public opinion to change or letting the reality of Brexit negotiations do your job for you or rely on @JolyonMaugham or @thatginamiller to do it for you. #timetostandupandbecounted

37/ Now that I have recovered some composure, I note @PhilipHammondUK has revealed the Government does not have an end state in mind

38/ So to the ordinary voter, you now have confirmation today that the Government has done no preparatory analysis, has no plan, still triggered Article 50 & still thinks it will deliver the best deal for Britain. If you agree with that approach then you probably believe in unicorns.