The Tories have just released a glossy 24-page brochure celebrating the 4th anniversary of Brexit.
As you would expect, it's not only false, it's so false that its mere existence wiped the word "true" from every dictionary in Britain.
So. Many. Lies.
gov.uk/government/pub…
"And we have secured the most comprehensive deal that the EU has ever agreed to in its history."
Er, no. That would be their EU membership offering.
Our own trade deal with them is a mouse fart in a hurricane by comparison.
Let's take a random lie as an example: "Within the EU, the UK would not have been able to cut VAT on the installations of solar panels, heat pumps and insulation to zero"
And now let's go over to an expert...
theecoexperts.co.uk/solar-panels/v…
Yes, they're really claiming that the non-implementation of a very very very very stupid idea (UKCA) is somehow a benefit that will "reduce burdens" for businesses.
No, it just won't introduce new ones, you oxygen thieves!
The EU also resolved its dispute over steel and aluminium. The US also lifted the ban on EU meat.
We would have been in EXACTLY the same position had we still been an EU member.
"The UK has signed Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) with seven US states with a combined GDP of £3.4 trillion, similar to the GDP of Germany"
That's like counting a "deal" to buy a chocolate bar from Tesco as potentially worth £20 billion because that's its market cap.
The EU's deal with NZ (agreed since we left) doesn't surrender the EU farming sector as it preserves tight quotas.
Ours risks destroying British lamb, beef and dairy farmers in the long term by removing all quotas on imports from NZ over time.
Italy is in the EU.
So whatever fluff lies behind this claim, we could have done as an EU member.
Hang on. Do they really not realise that UK consumers ultimately pay the tariffs in the form of higher prices?
This travesty of a document ends with a laundry list of company investments, absolutely none of which were driven by Brexit.
(In other words, none of the companies in question went "Aha! Brexit. I must invest more in the UK." Very much a "despite Brexit" situation.)
Just so we're clear, that was a 20,000ft pass, not a deep dive. Life's too short.
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