Thread by @PandaScottish

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This is great news

This is brilliant news

Good business, workers and their families

Sadly

For Owen

It shows how desperate liars are

Not only to lie about it

But to exploit it

https://twitter.com/OwenPaterson/status/1409903850765574152

So I could just do this as a really short thread

There is one simple question to ask anyone who sells the lies like Owen does above

Precisely what did brexit enable us to do to encourage this company investment decision that we were not able to do pre-brexit?

Oh yes and don't try and link this

The UK will still be bound by EU rules and by WTO rules EVEN AFTER THIS

And it has not happened yet

https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1410126470761095172

Oh and on the criteria and independence of any government decisions on subsidies

Well just look at bribes & the Town Fund

You are either OK with political preference to Tory constituency or you aren't

Choose @RobertJenrick @JakeBerry @RishiSunak @George_Osborne @David_Cameron

A reminder

In the Trade and Cooperation Agreement the fundamental rules of EU State aid law will continue to apply in the UK.

So I ask again a simple question

What did the UK do now that it could not
have done whilst in the EU?

whitecase.com/publications/a…

Oh and we also have to comply with WTO subsidy rules

brodies.com/insights/publi…

On hand outs

"Many of the companies receiving the largest public grants over the past few years previously paid little or zero corporation tax, the analysis shows. They include some of the best-known names in Britain, such as Amazon, Ford and Nissan."

theguardian.com/politics/2015/…

The £93bn corporate handout break down as follows:

Subsidies & grants: £14.5bn
Corporate tax benefits: £44bn
Hidden transport subsidies: £15bn
Energy subsidies: £3.8bn
Insurance, advice and advocacy services: £406m
Government procurement from the private sector: £15bn

oh yes and this is a *conservative* estimate

A reminder

That is foreign aid that the UK is so desperate, so weakened, so enfeebled that we need to use it as a trade tool to bolster brexit Britain

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Now of course you can remember during the referendum campaign there were lots of Leave campaigners who shovelled the shite about the EU bribing companies to locate away from the UK

Well that was a lie

ilovetheeu.co.uk/trade/no-the-e…

It is also covered in detail here by one of the best writers on the subject of the EU

https://twitter.com/EmporersNewC/status/895966891684048897

Here is also his update several years into brexit

https://twitter.com/emporersnewc/status/1095963392475652097?lang=en

So anyway

We travel back in time now

To before 23rd June 2016

Yup

We go back 5 years

Now the Leave campaign illegally and deliberately used company logo's

To sell their lie

To fool people

You only need ask one simple question

Why resort to that?

"The auto maker said in a statement that Vote Leave was using its name and logo on its website and in promotional materials without permission, and in ways that misrepresent its views on a possible “Brexit.”"

wsj.com/articles/nissa…

From that same article

"Vote Leave, which is the most prominent group campaigning for a Brexit, hasn’t stopped doing so despite repeated requests, it said."

it is the *repeated requests*

Not just one

Repeated

And also Toyota got upset

"It has especially annoyed the manufacturer as it has already stated that it believes continued British membership of the EU is best for its operations and its long-term competitiveness."

fleetnews.co.uk/news/manufactu…

Oh and Vauxhall

“Our logo has been used without permission from Vauxhall. It is inappropriate for our logo to be associated with any political campaign and we have expressed our concerns to the Vote Leave group as well as the Electoral Commission

cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-c…

Oh and Unilever

"Unilever, which has a base at Port Sunlight, told The Chronicle it was ‘wrong’ for its name to have appeared on the leaflet and intends to complain to the Electoral Commission."

Oh and here is Margaret Thatcher

"The manner of winning is a matter of honour."

Anyway enough of that

Now we go to one of the champions of brexit explaining the economic case for brexit

My bad

Here's Andrea Leadsom

Before the referendum

And after it

So her *best expectation* was really not met

What was her *worst expectation* ?

Oh yes

And you see the FTSE 100 bullshit trotted out so so many times from brexiteers

Here's a reminder

The impact of a drop in sterling is reflected in the FTSE100 and FTSE250

telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/…

Here's a reminder

"there won’t be a deal better than the single market"

theguardian.com/politics/2018/…

Here's a reminder of how a government spaffed more £££ up the wall to fling comfort letters at Nissan

Why would you be afraid of saying how much ?

You should be proud of giving a comfort letter and being a rich enough state to afford to give it

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

@MichaelGove

"There is a free trade zone stretching from 🇮🇸 to 🇹🇷that all European nations have access to … after we vote to leave we will remain in this zone ...we would have full access to the European market but be free from EU regulation which costs us billions a year”.

Here's #Ireland being honest

https://twitter.com/nealerichmond/status/1399629289163792385

Yes, that's Ireland the UK threatened to starve

Still at least we have some hollow words on a 50p piece

thejournal.ie/brexit-threat-…

Oh and here's #Turkey where @BorisJohnson @GiselaStuart @michaelgove doctored a video to incite racism, xenophobia and islamophobia

independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Here is @MichaelGove and @BorisJohnson on the plan Vote Leave wrote

Anyone seen that plan?

Anyone?

See also: social care

Here is Dominic Cummings on how Vote Leave not only did not have a plan but had no responsibility to have a plan

Here is Lord Lawson on the will o the wisp

Here is Sir Bernard Jenkin saying that government ministers who chose to campaign for Leave apparently had complete unitary authority to make government policy promises for post 23/6/16

So anyway back to @OwenPaterson

He wants to talk of #ProjectFear

Ok then

"So forecasts shortly after the referendum were fairly accurate over the medium term, but not from year to year."

fullfact.org/economy/how-ac…

oh yes and see also

https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1409868556767055883

There are two types of brexiteers

Those who insist Project Fear was a lie

And those who admit there has been economic damage but
1) can't quantify it
2) can't explain who in Leave campaign pre 23/616 warned of those & detailed them
3) can't explain when/how it will be better

There are even brexiteers who wanted to exploit a pandemic in which to hide brexit

Just imagine

150,000 dead

and the socioeconomic damage both to UK and world from a pandemic and they seek to exploit it

I can't fathom people who do that

June 2020

Now actually I should *THANK* those brexiteers who wanted to exploit a pandemic

Because in order to do so you first must admit to yourself that brexit is damaging

So thanks to Tory MPs who to themselves could admit that brexit was damaging

Why can't you be honest with voters?

See @sajidjavid and the lost decade of brexit - did that start from 23/6/16 or from a later date?

telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/1…

Here is a @ScotTories being honest

m.facebook.com/bbcdebatenight…

See below with @LBC @mrjamesob

Ironically Leave voters agreeing with David Cameron - who also said that the UK would survive

lbc.co.uk/radio/presente…

@mrjamesob @DavidGHFrost

"James discussed how Brexiteers are complaining that the EU are tough negotiators, who are ruthlessly defending the interests of the other EU countries - & suggested that's the opposite of what they said during the campaign."

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1409893138425122818

Your eternal fucking reminder

a reminder of the promise of what would happen on 24/6/2016

If only I could recall who said the British people were "fed up with experts" @MichaelGove

Tell me - when you employed a "Fellowship of Experts" - at what point did you become fed up of them?

civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…

Your reminder

@michaelgove employed @_NatashaDevon as a mental health czar and then well....

https://twitter.com/_natashadevon/status/1374650901168803844

theguardian.com/society/2016/m…

I did a long thread on Michael going over his record as a minister and on the leave campaign - its a long thread

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1260571730751471616

It is so easy to denigrate an entire profession with insults and of course throwing easy tropes like "elites" or "liberals" at them

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1034127151874957319

if you want to witness the full idiocy and bullshit on display from @DavidGHFrost

Then look below

https://twitter.com/BestForBritain/status/1409868556767055883

There is a simple premise

I want my country to be better

To do better

I want it to "level up"

I want it to "build back better"

I would rather we didn't just "survive" brexit

I would rather we did our best

Strong Britain, Great Nation right?

When you use the phrases "level up" or "build back better"

I would ask you the question

From whom?

And from what?

See coronavirus

See my thread on coronavirus - again warning - its a long one

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1389904419689582592

See austerity

Which was so bad the MOTHER and the AUNT of a Prime Minister warned of its effects

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1408060653047148549

So I am going to wrap up now with some threads

I am not going to unpick them to selectively quote from them

They touch on a few topics

1. Jacob Rees Mogg and the lie of brexit food price savings

https://mobile.twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1024895987876343808

2. Brexit damage to farming

https://mobile.twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1009051789335855104

3. the hard shagging of "science and innovation"

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1406951149991874571

4. weird that "science and innovation" didn't help provide those "many solutions" to the NI border Vote Leave promised eh @PennyMordaunt @michaelgove @GiselaStuart @DominicRaab @BrandonLewis

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1397131900700008450

5. Liz Truss on Australia

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1404742761362886659

6. Liz Truss on India

A country where a Prime Minister was so desperate for a trade deal to sell he did not put in border controls and allowed the import of the delta variant into the UK

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1338804039115530240

7. Liz Truss on Japan

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1319572058360156160

8. Oh yes and on America

9. Oh yes and on the Commonwealth

theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/…

10. Oh yes and on Ireland

https://twitter.com/nealerichmond/status/1409804984368173056

As those who sold brexit seek to shag

the flag (whilst disgracing it)

statues (whilst dishonouring them)

pictures of the Queen (whilst lying to her)

the armed forces (whilst cutting it)

the union (whilst pissing on it)

& incite a woke war

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1405538763694952459

So to wrap up

With one thread on brexit

And one man at the heart of it all

Amoral
Cheating
Lies
Racism
Nativism
Simplism
Corruption
Incompetence

Boris Johnson and his rabble cult

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1409813042754428932

and on brexit with a trio of questions

https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1342019458366382081

@threadreaderapp unroll please