The morning after

After the series of Government defeats in the House of Lords yesterday, you would have thought Brexiteers and the Maybot would be happy. As we were told, over and over again, through the referendum campaign that Brexit was about asserting the Sovereignty of Westminster.

And the House of Lords stating that it, not the Government, should decide if the deal was good enough or not, seemed to rather rile the Brexiteers.

Apparently Parliament can have sovereignty only if they do exactly as the Maybot and the Brexiteers want. Or, its the wrong kind of sovereignty. The Brexiteers want their sovereignty in the form of Henry VIII powers that not even Parliament can challenge. Seems a very odd kind of sovereignty to me.

May is talking about how the will of Parliament can be got round, which does not seem the right thing to me. But then this Government has ignored many resolutions, motions from the Commons, in that they don't take part in the vots, so say the vote isn't binding. I can't remember this happening before, and is making a mockery of our Parliament and its long history.

But as I have said before, I think a large part of Brexit is all about restricting the possibility of anyone questioning the acts and decisions of the Executive.

It emerged today that a plan to allow more non-EU doctors into Britain to easy the doctor shortage in the EU was vetoed by the then Home Secretary, one T. May.

It also emerged that the Home Office was deporting students on the basis of hearsay, that they could not speak English well enough. No interviews were carried out, and while they wheels of "justice" rolled round, they could not rent anywhere, work or drive. So making them destitute, destitute after coming here to learn and pay far more for their courses than Brits. Students should not even be counted in immigration figures, as research shows that such a tiny percentage of them stay beyond the end of their courses illegally. And yet, they too are targeted.

DD was up before the select committee again, and seemed annoyed to be taken away from the bar to be there. He shows he has learned little in nearly two years as the head of the Department for Exiting the EU, and making the same basic errors, repeating the same mistakes, and the great plan is to reword the proposal that the EU have rejected several times in the hope they won't notice.

And he believes he can get a trade deal framework in 11 months. He is probably the only person in his department that does.