Diolch, Llywydd. I beg to move the amendment standing in the name of Caroline Jones. Just over two years ago, the Government published, at the taxpayers' expense, a glossy 16-page document, which went to every house in the country, predicting the end of the world if the British people had the temerity to vote for national self-government. David Cameron made speeches up and down the land warning of the dire consequences, assuming the role of the fat boy in The Pickwick Papers, who said, 

'I wants to make your flesh creep'.

The whole of the business and media establishment, Government, the civil service, were devoted to trying to browbeat the British people into voting to stay in the EU, and yet 17.4 million people—the largest democratic vote ever in the United Kingdom—voted to leave the EU. And in Wales, where a majority of the people voted to leave, the votes were highest in Valleys seats like Blaenau Gwent, which I think holds the prize for the highest percentage of 'leave' voters: two thirds voted to leave. Now, here, I—[Interruption.] Here, I join the First Minister in that part of his speech where he referred to the shambolic negotiations that have been conducted by Theresa May and her Ministers in the last two years. This indicates a total lack of preparation on the part of the UK Government for life post Brexit, which is, I think, a betrayal of what those 17.4 million people voted for. Theresa May is one of those people for whom her indecision is final because the Government ping-pongs around day in and day out, as the First Minister has eloquently described. I never thought I would say this about anybody, but actually Theresa May makes John Major look like a paragon of decisiveness. At the end of two years, nearly, since we had that vote, the upshot is that we're about to become just a non-voting member of the EU, it seems.

I'd like to quote from an article that was just a few days ago published by Daniel Hannan, a Conservative Member of the European Parliament, where he said,

'The United Kingdom is inching toward an open-ended transition period that will leave almost everything as it is. Brussels will continue to run our agriculture, our fisheries, our overseas trade, our employment laws. We shall continue to pump our squillions across the Channel. Our laws will remain subject to Euro-judges. Only one significant thing will change: we shall lose our representation in the EU institutions and, with it, our ability to block harmful new laws. Why is Britain, the world’s fifth economy and fourth military power, contemplating a form of thraldom that none of the EU’s other neighbours—not Albania or Ukraine, never mind Norway—would dream of accepting? Is it sheer ineptness, or do some of our officials actively want it?'

I think the answer to those questions is 'both'. I give way.