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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?
Because the advice will contain a section called "how we could break the terms of the withdrawal agreement" or something similar - and I imagine the government doesn't want the routes that they have mapped out for screwing the EU made public.
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Yeah, Dominic Grieve, who knows about this kind of thing, was on C4 news last night saying requiring the government to publish advice from their attorney is madness.
It could have detail about which member states may have issues with different areas of the deal, and recommend strategies for managing this going forward. Not things you want either in the open for the press, or for those on the other side of the negotiating table.
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I doubt that kind of thing would appear in the same document though (I've no experience with this, it might...)?
Isn't the simplest explanation that there's something bad / very bad in the legal advice that they want buried for now.
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Because the advice will contain a section called "how we could break the terms of the withdrawal agreement" or something similar - and I imagine the government doesn't want the routes that they have mapped out for screwing the EU made public.
Really? I doubt that very much. Obviously, if you were right that would be a most interesting political development--and despite the odds it would certainly have chances of being politically damaging.
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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.