Mushroom Management o describe a style of management where employees (like mushrooms) are kept in the dark and periodically given a load of manure.
Whether you support Brexit or Remain surely we need to know the legal advice it received about the Brexit deal.
According to the Guardian
MPs will vote later on whether the UK government broke Parliament's rules by failing to publish the legal advice it received about the Brexit deal.That is in fact all the opposition parties
A senior minister is at risk of being suspended from the House of Commons after Labour and the Democratic Unionist party were allowed to submit an emergency motion accusing the government of holding parliament in contempt for failing to publish the full Brexit legal advice.
John Bercow, the Speaker, allowed Labour, the DUP and four other opposition parties to lay down a motion that will be voted on on Tuesday, immediately before before the start of the five-day debate on the Brexit deal.
The motion, submitted late on Monday, calls on MPs to find “ministers in contempt for their failure to comply” and is signed by the shadow Brexitsecretary, Sir Keir Starmer; the DUP’s Westminster leader, Nigel Dodds; and the Scottish National party, Liberal Democrats, Plaid Cymru and the Green party.
No penalty is spelt out in the motion, which is intended to act as a final warning, but Labour said that if it was passed on Tuesday and not still complied with then the party would seek further sanctions.
No 10 insists publishing confidential advice is not in the national interest.
It comes ahead of five days of debate on the EU withdrawal agreement, with MPs voting on the PM's deal next week.
The debate is scheduled to last eight hours a day, with Theresa May expected to say the UK is on course for a "better future outside the EU" and that her deal "takes back control of our borders, laws and money".
However, the prime minister faces opposition from MPs on all sides - including both the Leave and Remain wings of her own party - who argue that better deals are available, or that the public should have the final say in a referendum.
Many believe her deal is flawed because of a "backstop" that could keep the UK tied to EU customs rules in the event no future trade deal can be agreed. Some believe only the full legal advice will shed light on this.
It seems that many MPs (like myself ) will not be around to see The "thirty-year rule" is the informal name given to laws in the United Kingdom,t provide that certain government documents will be released publicly thirty years after they were created.
Labour indicated it would then seek to hold a senior minister – likely to be either the Cabinet Office minister, David Lidington, or the attorney general, Geoffrey Cox – in contempt and seek their suspension from the Common
The Guardian continues
On 13 November, the Commons unanimously agreed to a motion put down by Labour calling for the legal advice on the Brexit deal to be published “in full”. Conservative MPs were told to abstain after it became clear that the government was not certain of winning the vote when the DUP said it would vote with Labour.
Cox told the Commons on Monday that the government had made a mistake at the time. He said: “We should have opposed it,” although he added that he would not have complied even if the vote had been lost.
The government’s chief lawyer sought to sell the Brexit deal to MPs on the grounds that it represented “a calculated risk”.
He was asked by Joanna Cherry of the SNP if there was anything to prevent the Northern Ireland backstop, under which the UK would remain in a customs union with the EU after Brexit, becoming permanent.Not a document to sink the deal – what the Brexit legal advice summary saysCox replied: “As a matter of international law, no,” but added that if the backstop did become permanent, it would be “highly vulnerable to legal challenge” within EU law.
There can be only one reason not to publish the legal advice, and that is that "The Deal" has serious flaws , which would increase opposition from both sides.
We are faced however with an even more "Mushroom Management " situation if a Mrs Mays "Desl" is defeated and she calls for a General Election, With Mrs Mats Party split but still winning or Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is unlikely to back Remain if he won.
Is it not time LEAVERS agreed on a conformation referendum, that will hopefully set in stone , the "Will of the People", rather than that of a Prime Minister who ant't even get full support from its MPs.
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