Thread by @jonlis1

Next time the Brexit political and media class gaslights us with lie that voters were happy to take the risk of Brexit, show them this Sun editorial from 13 June 2016. Leave campaign didn’t just promise prosperity. They emphasised that to Remain was ‘in every way a bigger risk’.

In recent months high-profile Leave figures have claimed they warned voters Brexit was a risk and things could get rocky. They say voters went into it with their eyes open. This is a lie. At every point Brexiters terrified voters not with prospect of leaving but of staying in.

Imagine for one second the suggestion in June 2016 that Brexit could involve food or medicine shortages, or a massive air operation to ensure basic supplies. Would’ve been branded Project Fear on speed. Now openly admitted by gov & media outriders, and somehow deemed acceptable.

There’s one basic thought experiment to fight this. Let’s say a Remainer had suggested we might leave with no-deal and given just one consequence - massive tailbacks at Dover. Imagine, instead of ‘Project Fear’, a Brexit leader had admitted it. Yes, those tailbacks could happen.

The media would have gone berserk. ‘Johnson/Gove/Raab admits Dover could come to standstill after Brexit’. Would have dominated headlines in every newspaper. The first crack would have appeared. Voters would, rightly, have asked what was going on. What kind of project was this?

Do we really think 17.4m would still have voted for Brexit in those circumstances? What if a Brexiter had admitted, as now, possibility of a run on pound, or food shortages, or delays in accessing medication? Would more voters have perhaps opted for ‘risk of remaining’ instead?

The ‘will of the people’ is bullshit. Nobody voted for this Brexit. Nobody was warned about it. Nobody would have touched it with a barge-pole if they had been. It is the greatest fraud perpetrated on the British people in the country’s history.