Thread by @ByDonkeys

Day two of a project to turn the predictions of our Brexit overlords into #TweetsYouCantDelete. You asked for @DavidDavisMP, we give you @DavidDavisMP. Vote in thread below for next poster - location will be a leave-voting town. (Source for DD quote: Hansard) #LedByDonkeys

So whose genius prophesy should next be rendered as a giant Tweet billboard? Vote below by retweeting or liking your favourites 👇. We’ll take them to leave-voting regions to engage our friends and loved ones who live there #LedByDonkeys #TweetsYouCantDelete

'The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want.’

- Michael Gove, April 2016 #LedByDonkeys

'The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.’

- Liam Fox, July 2017 #LedByDonkeys

Getting a Brexit deal 'is like threading the eye of a needle. If you have a good eye and a steady hand, it’s easy enough.'

- David Davis, 3 December 2016 #LedByDonkeys

'I hadn’t quite understood the full extent of this but… we are particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing.’

- Dominic Raab, November 2018 #LedByDonkeys

'Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market.’

- Daniel Hannan, 12 May 2015 #LedByDonkeys

Within 2 years, before negotiation with the EU is likely to be complete, & therefore before anything material has changed, we can negotiate a free trade area massively larger than the EU. The new trade agreements will come into force at point of exit.’

- David Davis, July 2016

THEN:

‘There will be a free trade agreement that allows all our businesses to trade freely to and from continental Europe... It will take a relatively short period of time.’

- Chris Grayling in February 2016 #LedByDonkeys

NOW:

‘These are going to be lengthy negotiations, they're going to challenging negotiations… Nobody has ever said the negotiation would be straightforward and simple.’

- Chris Grayling, October 2017

(We'd put these two side by side on two billboards)

#LedByDonkeys

'Getting out of the EU can be quick and easy – the UK holds most of the cards in any negotiation.’

- John Redwood, July 2016 #LedByDonkeys

'There are good grounds for a new government team to offer the public a voice on what the deal looks like. And we obviously wouldn’t oppose that... I think there’s a strong democratic case for it.'

- Dominic Cummings, Vote Leave campaign director, Jan 2016 #LedByDonkeys

'If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.’

- David Davis, 2012, discussing the EU #LedByDonkeys

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'We could have two referendums. As it happens, it might make more sense to have the second referendum after the renegotiation is completed.’

- Jacob Rees-Mogg, Oct 2011 #LedByDonkeys

'In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way.'

- Nigel Farage, 16 May 2016 #LedByDonkeys