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Sep 15, 2020 12 tweets 9 min read Read on X
Strap in. Here's a LONG thread about all the times Boris Johnson praised the Withdrawal Agreement (his "oven-ready deal") that he's now actively engaged in sabotaging.

Posterity will not be kind.

Let's kick off with him posing proudly after having signed the WA...
Next, a couple of tweets about passing the WA Bill, and of course the flurry of lies around the December 2019 General Election.
Here's some more GE propaganda... The last one broke the needle of my hypocrisyometer.
And more. How many different ways can you find to praise a "great new deal" you now profess to hate?
Hope you're still awake. There's more, much more...

(Back in the day, his great new deal involved "our European friends" - feels like centuries ago.)
Yet more on the "great new deal"...
This one is so bad it deserves its own stand-alone tweet. Keep reading the thread for more.
This thread is just snapshots, in case the original tweets go walkabout. But you may have noticed that many of them incorporate full-on propaganda video clips. It's not enough to praise the deal in words alone...
What's that, waaaay in the distance? Could it be the finishing line?
The roar of the crowd is building as we come into the final stretch.

Notice the reminder of how this deal, unlike Theresa May's, is a decent one?
34 tweets.

34 times Boris Johnson lauded his deal, and pointed out how splendid it is.

And *now* he claims it is a travesty?

That's like someone being married for 25 years, then claiming never to have met their partner.
On your way out of this thread, I hope you'll indulge a passing plug for my book, "Slaying Brexit Unicorns".

It debunks two dozen Brexit myths, and gets to the truth of no deal and trade on WTO terms. Available now on Kindle and in paperback...
amazon.co.uk/Slaying-Brexit…

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Apr 2
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There's a lot of hate-farming fuss about flags and what some see as the perversion of the original Union Jack.

Much of the fake rage has emanated from the Tory party, which is ironic given how many times they've bastardised it for their own use.

It's been a tree...

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It's been brutally chopped in half, and used as part of a Jenga-inspired sculpture...

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It's been cut in half and bent...

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Mar 14
The Tories have published their new definition of extremism. It includes 3 components.

It is well worth reading the full definition of each of the components (reproduced later in this thread) because they're extremely sweeping.
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Wonder how advocating to leave the ECHR (and indeed agitating to hold a referendum on doing so) squares with this?

After all, doing so would unquestionably strip us of numerous legal protections. Image
Does this preclude advocating for PR?

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Jan 31
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.
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"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…
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Nov 6, 2023
In case you missed it, today we've had the Daily Mail, Telegraph and Express all soiling themselves with glee at a report showing that trade since Brexit has been going well.

Only snag is, the report (by murky Tufton Street outfit the IEA) was quite literally a pack of lies...

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How did they pull their stupid stunt off? Quite simply.

1) They compared two different types of data (inflation-adjusted for the pre-Brexit period, unadjusted for the post-Brexit period) to draw false conclusions.

2) They got Kemi Badenoch to swallow the lot and talk about it.
Here's more info about the holes in the original IEA report the size of the Grand Canyon...
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Sep 28, 2023
THREAD: Two big takeaways from the most recent @YouGov survey.

1) The Tories are dead to anyone under 65. They might as well not exist for the under-50s. As for the under-25s...

So, unless there's a seismic political change, it's only a matter of time until they're toast.

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2) We're rejoining the EU, period. The only question is when.

Can't clock up "wrong to vote to leave the EU" numbers like this and expect to stay out. (For anyone under 50, Rejoining's a no-brainer.)

That's like trying to hold back the Atlantic Ocean with your hands.

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So the death of the Tories and the death of Brexit both lie in our future.

Whether both end up going together in a wild Thelma and Louise moment, or one goes down fighting to preserve the other, is still an open question.

But it's clear they will vanish from this Earth.

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