9. Debate: The Second Anniversary of the EU Referendum

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:18 pm on 19 June 2018.

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Photo of Mr Simon Thomas Mr Simon Thomas Plaid Cymru 6:18, 19 June 2018

When you vote for something as disruptive as Brexit, you have to be careful what you wish for. I don't think many of us expected that a Brexit vote would end up with a Prime Minister, under the title of 'Taking back control', appearing on The Andrew Marr Show and saying, 'Parliament can't tell the Government what to do', which is precisely what Parliaments are supposed to tell Government and has been since 1688 and has been since we had what the English like to call 'the glorious revolution', but I'm sure the Irish don't. But we have to bear in mind that this—[Interruption.] In a second, if I may. We have to bear in mind as well this line that we are strengthening the union. How do you strengthen the union—which, of course, Plaid Cymru is not necessarily in favour of, anyway, but, nevertheless, let's look at these arguments—how do you strengthen the union when what you're doing is impoverishing the weakest parts of that union, and when you know that the union itself has not delivered regional policy that addresses that? But the European Union, of course, has done that, but we're moving out of that. 

Just on that point, I'll give way.