This is, after all, how we can avoid being faced again with faits accomplis in a year's time and being indignant on a massive scale.
We do not want to be systematically faced with faits accomplis.
But if some kind of policy of faits accomplis is already mentioned sometimes at this level, then what about parliamentary control?
In a series of earlier decisions on the railways since 2001 certain faits accomplis have been established.
We are presented with a series of potential faits accomplis.
They involve underhand deals, faits accomplis and physical obstacles.
Faits accomplis created by the use of force are not acceptable and can never be acceptable.
We need to find a way of formulating an opinion and a view before we are presented with faits accomplis.