9. Debate on NNDM6985 — EU Withdrawal Negotiations

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:00 pm on 5 March 2019.

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Photo of Mark Drakeford Mark Drakeford Labour 6:00, 5 March 2019

—has been allowed there. Instead, Llywydd—[Interruption.] Instead, Llywydd—[Interruption.] Instead, Llywydd—[Interruption.] The Member can shout at me from a standing position, but I'm not doing anything to appease him in this debate.

Instead, Llywydd, I agree absolutely with what my colleague Alun Davies said. Democracy is the right to disagree; it is the right to be in a minority and to continue to argue for your cause; it is the opposite of the absolutist view that, in one single vote, the winner takes all and the winner holds all in perpetuity. That is the negation of democracy, but it is—