Thread by @FFSake_

Hi everyone,

As well as PM voting against Welsh Assembly in 97 (after a ref passed to create one with slim majority), and was part of Shadow Cab which argued putting it to another vote in 2005 Con Manifesto, we thought you'd like to know what Brexiters said during debate...

. @OwenPaterson said during those debates:

"...the referendum was a fiddle. It is outrageous that a move that will irrevocably alter the United Kingdom's constitution should be pushed through without consulting 85 per cent. of the population."
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Whilst @bernardjenkin accused the Government (who were enacting results of a slim majority referendum) that they were:

"Using the sort of democratic logic of which Saddam Hussein would be proud, the right hon. Gentleman would cheerfully claim a yet bigger mandate for his plans"

And @nigelmp said that:

"It would have been better if the percentage majority in favour had been in double figures. That would have settled the issue once and for all, but it did not and it remains unsettled."

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Finally, Laurence Robertson MP asked if the Welsh Assembly Referendum was "a full mandate—a mandate sufficiently strong to break up the United Kingdom?...If another referendum were held in 12 months, say, it could well give a different result."

All of this shows the rank hypocrisy of Senior Brexiters - who claim the EU Referendum in 2016 was sacrosanct - despite the Brexit being delivered a million miles away from what was promised - and arguing the exact opposite after Welsh Assembly referendum.

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Thanks to the Prime Minister, for pointing this out. Much obliged.

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