POLITICS is never simple, but I cannot recall any time as the present when it was so complex.

All parties in Parliament are accusing the others of failing to tell the truth.

Labour has a simple message to persuade the government to go.

The Conservatives are hanging on to a threadbare majority that no longer works and can no longer produce popular policies.

There have been votes on devolving power away from the European Union to a minority of voters in Britain.

This is not democracy as we have long understood it.

The vote to abandon devolution appears to be a half-hearted one.

Majorities in Northern Ireland and Scotland have rejected it.

Brexit is perilous to Wales. Since 2000 Wales has received £5.3 billion in European structural funds, the highest level in the UK.

During the referendum campaign Brexiteers made sweeping promises that Wales would not be worse off.

When I asked secretary of state to guarantee that Wales would not lose out his answers were predictably vacuous and ambiguous.

The world has changed.

New fears have been aroused that abandoning devolved power is based on falsehoods.

- The Farmer's Unions have reversed their policies and are panicking on the likely chaos post-Brexit.

The reality of giving away their power to dictate the market has been short lived and they have written to MPs forecasting poverty if the referendum decision is implemented.

The fairest way forward is a new referendum based on the full knowledge of its consequences.

Wales is heavily dependent on farm incomes and our economy has been shaped that way for many years.

To go ahead with the two-year-old referendum result will impose a permanent financial burden on farming that the rest of industry would have to pay for whilst suffering the loss of EU structural funds.

Farming has been subsidised for 70 years and this puts us at a disadvantage with the rest of the world where trade is concerned.

One farmer's union has contacted me saying they cannot hope to make money in the future and wish to be treated in future as a permanently subsidised industry.

That would lead to increases even further in the hidden subsidies they have enjoyed since World War Two.

This may well be justified, but needs the agreement of a second vote from the public who will pay the subsidies.