David Davis has LIED REPEATEDLY to Parliament about Brexit impact assessments. He must resign now

Last Updated: December 6, 2017By Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

This Site said David Davis would be in very deep trouble if he could not explain his behaviour. He has – and remains in deep trouble. But he thinks he is above reproach, like so many of his entitled, privileged Tory friends. And the above is his probable response to anyone who demands appropriate action.

What a difference a few hours can make. Only yesterday, This Writer was mocking the Tories for setting up a ‘reading room’ for MPs to examine the Brexit ‘sectoral impact assessments’, and now we find out they don’t exist!

Mr Davis has been using these nonexistent documents as a shield against Parliamentary opponents since the summer – deliberately lying to Parliament, and the country, over a period of several months.

He cannot claim he did not know these documents did not exist.

MPs (through the Queen, for goodness’ sake!) directed the Department for Exiting the European Union to make these assessments – nearly 60 of them – available to the Commons Brexit Committee on November 1.

No wonder it took DExEU no less than 27 days to provide – not 57 or 58 impact assessments but a single, 800-plus-page document. The impact assessments don’t exist.

Then DExEU set up a ‘reading room’ in which MPs were invited to read these nonexistent papers on a strictly limited basis. The mind boggles.

Now:

The government has not carried out any impact assessments of leaving the EU on the UK economy, Brexit Secretary David Davis has told MPs.

“There’s no sort of systematic impact assessment,” Mr Davis told the Brexit committee.

Committee chairman Hilary Benn asked whether impact assessments had been carried into various parts of the economy, listing the automotive, aerospace and financial sectors.

“I think the answer’s going to be no to all of them,” Mr Davis responded.

When Mr Benn suggested this was “strange”, the minister said formal assessments were not needed to know that “regulatory hurdles” would have an impact.

“I am not a fan of economic models because they have all proven wrong,” he added.

The vilification is practically overwhelming the social media:

Mr Lammy has written an information Twitter thread on this subject, providing a timeline:

There you have it: Contempt of Parliament; lying to Parliament; and of course evidence that Brexit will seriously harm the UK economy (in the absence of evidence that it will do us any good).

Where’s Mr Davis’s resignation?

Other commentators have been more brief in their criticisms:

https://twitter.com/Barkercartoons/status/938363498635104256

https://twitter.com/xugla/status/938363438014914560

https://twitter.com/Barkercartoons/status/938362573166137345

https://twitter.com/DancingTheMind/status/938356842408890368

https://twitter.com/DancingTheMind/status/938365055795716096

https://twitter.com/Barkercartoons/status/938366857299529728

Yes – we need action at once:

  • David Davis must resign, and
  • There must be a motion of no confidence in the Conservative government’s handling of Brexit.

These utterly incompetent, vain and arrogant Conservatives must make way for a government that can actually do a job properly.

Ed Miliband put it best, after the failure of talks on the Northern Ireland border:

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8 Comments

  1. che December 6, 2017 at 1:28 pm - Reply

    Remember Fawlty Towers ? Waldorf Salad anyone ??

  2. Barry Davies December 6, 2017 at 3:49 pm - Reply

    The thing about assessments is that they seldom prove to be correct, just like the assessments of project fear were completely wrong, this is just remainers clutching at straws.

    • Mike Sivier December 6, 2017 at 7:48 pm - Reply

      Name some. How about the NHS impact assessments?

      • NMac December 7, 2017 at 10:08 am - Reply

        Not clutching at straws, but proving the sheer dishonesty and corruption of Davis & co, something which is extremely important.

    • bill December 7, 2017 at 6:31 pm - Reply

      The fears of the Remain Campaign were not completely wrong, they were just delayed by the spike in exports caused by the 18% devaluation of our currency, stop sounding smug and face the consequences of your actions.

  3. Roland Laycock December 6, 2017 at 5:02 pm - Reply

    Brexit is a joke they know what they want and that’s turn the UK into a tax haven for the rich the country or its people don’t ever come into there minds

  4. blackghost55 December 6, 2017 at 6:44 pm - Reply

    Resign?? Should be sacked

  5. casalealex December 6, 2017 at 7:45 pm - Reply

    I am confused have there been Brexit impact assessments or not?

    http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/environment-food-and-rural-affairs-committee/news-parliament-2017/brexit-trade-in-food-evidence4-17-19/

    Brexit impact on food prices and food standards
    06 December 2017
    The Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee hears from consumers, retailers and processors for its inquiry on Brexit: trade in food inquiry. This session focuses on the impact of Brexit on food prices and food standards, and the challenges and opportunities for retailers and processors.

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