-
I don't really understand why the full legal advice is considered so important
Modern politics appears to be about dissembling, distraction, and the ability to reinterpret everything you do at any stage.
Publication of third party advice, on which you purportedly acted, means that you are pinned down and your narrative is restricted.
Or you could just be called out for making unsupported decisions for your own ends.
NotThamesWater-
Modern politics appears to be about dissembling, distraction, and the ability to reinterpret everything you do at any stage.
Publication of third party advice, on which you purportedly acted, means that you are pinned down and your narrative is restricted.
Or you could just be called out for making unsupported decisions for your own ends.
Interesting. Thanks. I still wonder how politically damaging that is.
Oliver Schick
I don't really understand why the full legal advice is considered so important, but I suspect the fact that the Government is trying to withhold it suggests that there may be something there, although I'd be surprised if there were some kind of smoking gun. Or could it be a false trail to distract from something else?
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/03/not-a-document-to-sink-the-deal-what-the-brexit-legal-advice-says
It'll be interesting to see what becomes of this:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/dec/03/cabinet-minister-suspension-brexit-legal-advice-deal
Obviously, May has played the same tactics throughout this process from the start, trying to uninvolve Parliament and has blocked even simple things so that people had their work cut out getting past all those obstacles she put in place. It's mean-minded and ultimately probably effective in evading scrutiny to some extent.