Hilary Abernathay #FBPDataEvidenceTruth Profile picture
Gvmt Policy: ditch evidence, data and economics. It's populism you mugs, no plans needed; no one cares if it works: no one cares if it got done. UK ⏩🍌Republic

Aug 20, 2019, 20 tweets

We voted for it rant
17.4m people voted Brexit right?
They wanted control of laws, money and borders right?
So does No Deal deliver?
Tories, Brexit Party, UKIP, lobby sites
Number who can tell me = 0
Everyone says No deal means the sky falls in
No one explaining if it's worth it

so obvious I must be the idiot. Everyone else already has the answers. I must have got it wrong.
So then I visit
The Telegraph,
The Mail,
The Express
The Times
Hell I even tried the Guardian
Give me a table anything.
You voted for this, No deal gives this
Nada. Bugger all

So Fnck it, no one seems to be able tell 17.4m people after all this time that they're going to get the Brexit they voted for.
In fact everyone is soooo clear about what they voted for that it doesn't need discussion.

Bollocks. WTF. if this were the budget it'd be everywhere

So is No Deal is a con? It's NOT the Brexit I voted for?
Nah? Farage would complain.
💡inspiration
The other ones...Vote Leave.
Of course. They're in power!!!
We're saved, Brexit is coming...
...Except they also don't know if it's brexit
But at least it had some promise details.

I got a little iffy jiffy excited then
Because I could be the first!
I could be me,
to tell you
after oh so long, that we (the British people)
that we had got The Brexit we had voted for.
A world exclusive from a little twitter handle
Me
All I had to do was fill in the chart

Now, i know you're itching to get there, but hold on.
Give me a chance to explain.
This is a big deal for little me
A world exclusive
I've probably added at least 2 followers this week
This could bring 20 more.
Just answers for every promise in red and white
More control?

Yeah, ok there were a few problems
Not big ones!! No don't worry.
But a few...er
teething troubles?
shall we say
like, well it was all a bit ranty
and as you can see, somehow we hadn't actually really promised anything at all

And then some of the promises were a bit
ooh - erm when someone says and you suck in
a bit
wincy
yeah. embarrassing
made in the heady days of 2016
we've all been there, I promise to lose weight, every day
and still need new jeans
must be the same for their promises
#borisempathy

But I was determined now
and trust me, when i'm determined I can climb mountains
If they could deliver Brexit
The Brexit that we, the people, had all voted for
I could answer the questions
or at least guess
even if it was an itsy bitsy harder to do than I might have anticipated

So are you all there?
Are you all ready?

I wondered one by one?

it is a world exclusive!
how many editors get one
let alone little old me.

Anyway, decided not. in the end it's easier to do a big reveal. So are you ready?
DO we at last with NO DEAL get the BREXIT we voted for?

sorry. I wish i had better news.
but, maybe the good thing
even though that fizzled
is someone MUST be interested in this
No Deal ISN'T Brexit at all
worse
it sort of makes us a Vassal State
And Mr Mogg got all shouty about that
He'll care
So, just for Moggy, i started scoring

Turns out I didn't need that sophisticated a system
my 3 year old offered to help me with
some of the pictures
but that felt a bit organic
so I'm going to spare you
and say the usual things
DON'T believe me
Check yourself
And that way we won't elect criminals and shysters

it's that last one I want to talk about a bit
EU Anti Tax Avoidance Directive
Soooo boring, but it's the story
And a bit of asset stripping
I don't care - EU remain or leave, who gives one now?
But EVERYONE SHOULD CARE about the No Deal Steal
Biggest f%cking con in history.

This is about as simple as we can make it
This isn't a leave remain thing
Leave if you want to I don't care
But if you let them do this switch
You give ANYTHING good about Brexit to them
And we. We take all the shit.
And surely, that's something everyone should be fighting?

Some of us think this was the plan all along
Some of us think they pulled it off late
But it doesn't matter
Like a conjuring trick
They pulled it off so fast,
You didn't notice
And now you even want it
Because they told you it's brexit

Remainers will moan about this, don't they always?
But
If you really want to leave the EU, you should be screaming about this
Chasing them out of the pub down the road
Coz It's not just that the bastards picked your pocket
They did it while you were buying them a drink

A bad thing, and then the good

I'm not "into" conspiracies, this is probably press incompetence (we've had a lot of that)

But remember at the start I tried to find out?
That's bad - it means mail, express, telegraph, they missed this too

and I cannot change the world alone

The Good?
Baby, it ain't over yet

A lot of rushing to October
Out - Deal or NO DEAL
That's awfully convenient

If Brexit matters
Don't give them control
to swap the pieces to deliver #nodealswitch

To stop them
All we need to do, is take the time to do it right

We've been talking about this for a while now,
Which means we need your help.
Just talk to the people below

No need to fuss or shout - we're British

But be determined, and check for yourself
ALWAYS
Because you will stop them

And they WILL try again...

Because £££

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