Thread by @atatimelikethis

So, Brexit is coming.

My top 10 Brexiter promises that will NOT be delivered by Brexit. Words to the contrary from Brexiters assumed.
Applies to any form of deal or no deal.

And that's a cast-iron guarantee you can engrave on a Bus, threaded below

1. Sovereignty - we’ll have less of it, less control of it, and be less able to control our destiny. Because sovereignty doesn't control destiny, leverage does. And we gave all ours away, claiming No Deal was a good idea (see Negotiation for Dummies). 1/19

2. Independence - since we always had it, Brexit can only make things worse. And it delivers, with Moggs on.
As the only trade bloc non-aligned country in the world, we’ll be screwed over left right and centre, taking a lot of rules and taking control of none of them. 2/19

3. Money - we’ll pay through the nose for privileged access to this sovereignty reduction, while most of the money behind Brexit profits from our misfortune.

Let's cheer those illiberal elites! 3/19

4. Laws - Brexiters have never managed to name anything of substance we couldn't legislate for within the EU,
So we will not magically be able to pass new Laws we couldn't before. 4/19

If there were a list of laws the EU could prevent, be sure you would have read it in the Tory Press.

Right alongside the list of countries, we couldn't trade with. 5/19

5. Borders - So far we've had Brexiters eroding our borders down the Irish Sea, drowning children in the channel, failing to stop immigration by making it harder to work here. 6/19

The border trophy goes to Priti who made us the only country not to check planes for Covid19. It took her 6 months to create an ineffective Quarantine. I wish she didn't have control of borders! 7/19

6. Trade - Brexit is a game of giving up trade deals to get trade deals on moderately worse terms.

Or with Canada, considerably worse terms. The problem seems to be no new countries, except China, which Brexiters have been shooting holes in since the start of Covid19. 8/19

Now we are China with a new variant more contagious than the original, where are they? Comment on our bad practice viral containment? Or laughable outbound controls vs China. 9/19

7. Wealth - Start spotting offshore investments, currency speculations, wealthy ex-pat Newspaper owners and a whole host of shorts. It'll be a long clean up. Also whatever happened to those Henry VIII transfers. Did someone forget tax evasion? 10/19

8. Fartage will invariably say bad deal but, as always will be unable to say what he'd do instead except nothing at all. He'll fall back on the usual "clean break" spacefiller. As usual, he and Richard Tice won't be able to name anything real. They'll talk in generalities. 11/19

9. Sovereignty2 - Parliament will never properly review this deal with the EU.

That will make it the third major trade deal it has not reviewed. That's already less sovereignty than Parliament had in the EU, where trade review by each state was crucial for agreement. 12/19

This will make a mockery of Brexit, of Parliament, of the process, and all of us individually. It will make the last 4 years pointless - beyond any other point in this thread.

And the supporters will conveniently ignore it. Since they have already 13/19

10. Johnson and team will sell all this as a victory, though lacking in sunlit uplands.
A shout of "we'll survive" will be our hard-earned and very expensive BATTLE CRY! It better be cast in gold for its cost. 14/19

They'll say independence, sovereignty and freedom many many times, despite any cursory inspection of the evidence showing we'll have less of all three.

They'll try to blame covid. I'm not sure it'll work 15/19

BONUS
We will still trade with the EU because not trading with the EU is as stupid as promising not to trade with China or the US.

Every country needs to trade with the EU, and every country other than us is attempting to get the sort of trade deal we walked away from. 16/19

We will never again get the terms that Thatcher negotiated because many ignoramuses think themselves superior to her. 17/19

Whatever your view of her, if you think she was less smart than the muppets or PM in the Cabinet or ERG then you probably deserve what they've given you and us. 18/19

FINALLY
As Boris nicks the money from your pocket for the Covid levels of cost of Brexit year in year out, half of you will cheer for him. And our glorious "independAnt" future.

Slow clap Brexiters, well done. 19/19

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