—but it is that absolutist view that means that, in the hands of those who hold those views, we are heading to that cliff, and that cliff-edge only 24 days away from now.

Llywydd, as you have heard, the Government will vote against the Plaid Cymru amendment, not because of the arguments made in favour of it, but because I believe it puts tactics ahead of strategy. The strategic game today is for parties on the progressive left of politics in Wales and in Scotland to vote together in favour of propositions that have already been endorsed here in this Assembly and that become more urgent with every single day. The force of that argument will be significantly strengthened by the endorsement of an identical motion in both Parliaments. That's why we will vote against the Plaid Cymru amendment, because, were it to pass, it would dilute the impact of parliamentary unanimity. It would be used by the Conservative Government to suggest that Wales and Scotland are, after all, not united behind the propositions put in front of the two Parliaments by two very different Governments but Governments of one mind on the matters put before Members here today.

I agree with Lynne Neagle that we need to be clear and we need to be unequivocal. That's why we must not vote for an amendment that introduces equivocation between this National Assembly and the vote that will be held in the Scottish Parliament. I agree with Alun Davies that this is our opportunity to demonstrate a solidarity in the face of a threat that otherwise has the danger of a broken Britain. In Scotland, opposition parties with every bit as much of a belief in a second referendum as Plaid Cymru have been willing to make those points in the debate but not to seek to obscure the force of a single motion through amendment.

Here is what my colleague Richard Leonard said in that debate, when he talked about the path that Mrs May has followed, and said then that, when she fails, then there is no choice but to go back to the people in a public vote, with a credible 'leave' option as well as a remain option on the ballot paper. It's not because we disagree with the sentiments, but because we want to send one single united message on these matters from this Parliament and from the Scottish Parliament too.