Learning the lessons of the past

Today, the PM made a speech in Wales where she compared the referendum for the Welsh Assembly in 2005 and the one for Brexit.

Only she lied. Badly.

See, in the 205 Conservative Manifesto, the party made clear that it would not honour the small majority for the Assembly, instead would push for a second referendum, rather than as she said her party supported it. Even worse than that is that all of her ministers who were in Parliament at the time also voted against the setting up of the assembly, including one T. May. How could she have forgotten so easily that she had acted against a referendum, the voice of the people.

As in life, in politics, things move fast and soon after the letter arrived from the EU in which she hoped would support her with further clarifications on the backstop

It didn't.

Nothing had changed, not the essence of how and when the backstop could be ended.

In an opposite action to last year, she rushed out the Attorney General's legal advice on this which said her deal was the only course open, which was, of course, also not correct.

Tomorrow sees the meaningful vote, and there are a number of new amendments, once which states in the event of the Government and Parliament not being able to agree, the Government would request an extension. If that were to be refused, then the amendment would force the Government to withdraw A50. It might not pass, of course, but as reality is everywhere, there is no escaping that the Government, Parliament nor the Opposition have an actual plan B. This offers plan B and plan C.

An in an interview, Boris de Piffel Johnson (remember him?) claimed he knew more about car manufacturing than Jaguar Land Rover.

You really could not make this up.

Were it not so serious, this would be quite funny.