Which Is The Lie?

[Kromovaracun]

http://uk.businessinsider.com/davis-says-the-government-has-not-produced-any-impact-assessments-on-brexit-on-uk-2017-12?r=US&IR=T

David Davis is now insisting that the "excruciating" and detailed studies which he claimed the government had produced before to estimate the impact of Brexit do not exist. In fact, he has claimed the government has made no studies whatsoever.

Which is the lie?

[naomi24]

I can't access that.

[Kromovaracun]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-42249854

[Kromovaracun]

In October, Davis had claimed openly (in a parliamentary committee) that they existed "in excruciating detail" and in June claimed "We've already got 50, nearly 60 sector analyses already done." Today he claimed that no impact studies have been undertaken, despite previously claiming they had been although they "might be" in future.

They cannot both be true. So what's more likely? That the impact studies were produced and Davis is lying about their existence, or that the impact studies were never done in the first place and Davis lied about them earlier this year?

[ichkeria]

I think they should play the Laurel and Hardy theme when Davis stands up in the Commons next. He is being found out for the clown he really is

[Peter Pedant]

// They cannot both be true.//
they can both be false cant they ?

studies which were impact studies which er arent now
because they are being re-written
springs to mind

I mean are you really surprised when politicians lie and lie and lie ( and then go home to their girlfrenz and mistresses)

[Kromovaracun]

//I mean are you really surprised when politicians lie and lie and lie//

Not as such, although I do find the brazen nature of this particular lie quite surprising tbh.

[Kromovaracun]

//He is being found out for the clown he really is//

Well he is looking increasingly haggard and boozed up. He was interviewed on Daily Politics a week or two ago and I couldn't help but notice how red his nose and cheeks were looking...

[Gromit]

Parliament has clearly been misled.

Davis clearly indicated that 50 brexit assessment reports into sectors of British industry had been commissioned. Parliament believed that and passed a motion that the Brexit Select Committee should see the material. Now he is saying no assessments have been made. It doesn’t sound very convincing.

If no assessment into what the result of Brexit will have on British Industry has been done, that is truly shocking.

Now we seem to have two Ministers who are unsackable despite their obvious uselessness becoming apparent.

[anneasquith]

This is not a confident man when being interviewed, maybe floundering a bit ?

[Old_Geezer]

Predictions are invariably unreliable anyway. One does what has to be done, and then steers the course for maximum benefit as events unfold, with an eye on the likely next opportunity.

As for what reports were and were not done, nobody here is likely to know. It's up to Davis to explain.

[Kromovaracun]

Perhaps, anne, but I think you're being very generous. I would say it is fairly 'confident' to directly contradict something you have been saying for months and then insist you aren't.

[anneasquith]

I don't think he is confident, he's crumbling, unless he is just an out and out plonker.

[Gromit]

It is easy to be brazen, confident or a plonker when you know that you are unsackable.

Davis is the embodiment of Theresa May’s weakness.

[Gromit]

Davis’ woeful performance in front of the select committee has reawakened calls for him to be done for Contempt of Parliament.