[thread]
Project Fear
>
Fed up with experts
>
We hold all the cards
>
We have a plan
>
TNUMTWNT
>
It will be better
>
🇩🇪 businesses will order EU27 to bang on 🇬🇧🚪
>
£ needed a correction
>
#DespiteBrexit
>
There was going to be an impact
>
price worth paying
>
"quite happy"
Project Fear
>
Fed up with experts
>
We hold all the cards
>
We have a plan
>
TNUMTWNT
>
It will be better
>
🇩🇪 businesses will order EU27 to bang on 🇬🇧🚪
>
£ needed a correction
>
#DespiteBrexit
>
There was going to be an impact
>
price worth paying
>
"quite happy"
So I started from this video of @lucyfrazermp
And her precise quote
We will come back to her later
And her precise quote
We will come back to her later
https://twitter.com/Femi_Sorry/status/1453851753414373414
So first of all
Let's start with the first
"Project Fear"
A term coined by accident
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Let's start with the first
"Project Fear"
A term coined by accident
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
Here's a quote from Dominic Cummings on what "won it" 
Now we move onto the next topic
@michaelgove
"I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong."
thetimes.co.uk/article/gove-s…
@michaelgove
"I think the people in this country have had enough of experts with organisations from acronyms saying that they know what is best and getting it consistently wrong."
thetimes.co.uk/article/gove-s…
Now that's a really weird quote from Michael
Because
Whilst a minister at the Ministry of Justice he was keen to seek out a Tolkienesque "Fellowship of Experts"
civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…
Because
Whilst a minister at the Ministry of Justice he was keen to seek out a Tolkienesque "Fellowship of Experts"
civilserviceworld.com/professions/ar…
Michael Gove 2011
2011 that the IFS was a “fantastic think-tank”, and a year earlier that he had a "great respect" for the body.
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ifs-prop…
2011 that the IFS was a “fantastic think-tank”, and a year earlier that he had a "great respect" for the body.
huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ifs-prop…
Here's a larger thread dissecting the works of one @michaelgove
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1260571730751471616
"We hold all the cards"
Really?
All of them?
Not just some of them?
Here's EU citizens used as a bargaining chip
news.sky.com/story/eu-natio…
Really?
All of them?
Not just some of them?
Here's EU citizens used as a bargaining chip
news.sky.com/story/eu-natio…
"We hold all the cards"
Here's Lord Lawson
Here's Lord Lawson
"We have a plan"
14/6/16 Daily Telegraph
"Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the two leading figures in the Leave campaign, have drawn up a blueprint for implementing a Brexit. Sensibly, it calls for flexibility and a period of reflection."
14/6/16 Daily Telegraph
"Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, the two leading figures in the Leave campaign, have drawn up a blueprint for implementing a Brexit. Sensibly, it calls for flexibility and a period of reflection."
Anyone seen that plan?
Anyone?
Anyone?
"TNUMTWNT"
Sorry - that's my shorthand for "they need us more than we need them"
See Lord Lawson earlier
Oh yes and also:
Sorry - that's my shorthand for "they need us more than we need them"
See Lord Lawson earlier
Oh yes and also:
https://twitter.com/nealerichmond/status/1452897789734752261
"It will be better"
Here is a @ScotTories parliamentarian Andrew owie MP
Maybe he isn't being "optimistic" enough
Here is a @ScotTories parliamentarian Andrew owie MP
Maybe he isn't being "optimistic" enough
https://twitter.com/thesnp/status/1367807223682973696?lang=en
"It will be better"
Here is @sajidjavid and the lost decade of brexit
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/1…
Here is @sajidjavid and the lost decade of brexit
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/1…
"It will be better"
Strangely for @sajidjavid he has tried to erase his own words on that lost decade of brexit
They seem to have been erased from his own website
Strangely for @sajidjavid he has tried to erase his own words on that lost decade of brexit
They seem to have been erased from his own website
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1333798191238549507
It is amazing just how far people will sink for self, career and "party"
🇩🇪 businesses will order EU27 to bang on 🇬🇧🚪
“Of course EU countries will continue trading with us on a tariff free basis -they would be damaging their own commercial interests if they didn’t. That’s why EU politicians would be banging down the door for a trade deal on 24/6/16”
“Of course EU countries will continue trading with us on a tariff free basis -they would be damaging their own commercial interests if they didn’t. That’s why EU politicians would be banging down the door for a trade deal on 24/6/16”
🇩🇪 businesses will order EU27 to bang on 🇬🇧🚪
Your reminder
We are 5 years in
German businesses did not order the EU 27 to do this
Your reminder
We are 5 years in
German businesses did not order the EU 27 to do this
2016 from BBC Live Thread
2017
“The British government is lacking a clear concept despite talking a lot,” BDI Managing Director Joachim Lang said.
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-bri…
“The British government is lacking a clear concept despite talking a lot,” BDI Managing Director Joachim Lang said.
uk.reuters.com/article/uk-bri…
2018
"Theresa May has “lost all sense of time. Instead of finally putting concrete goals for the future relationship on the table, London keeps delaying,”
global.handelsblatt.com/politics/busin…
"Theresa May has “lost all sense of time. Instead of finally putting concrete goals for the future relationship on the table, London keeps delaying,”
global.handelsblatt.com/politics/busin…
"£ needed a correction"
Andrea Leadsom
"So I'm unimpressed to hear the Remain camp insisting that a vote to leave means sterling will collapse, inflation will pick up, 3m jobs will be lost, and now, the latest scare story, house prices will collapse."
cityam.com/241739/why-bre…
Andrea Leadsom
"So I'm unimpressed to hear the Remain camp insisting that a vote to leave means sterling will collapse, inflation will pick up, 3m jobs will be lost, and now, the latest scare story, house prices will collapse."
cityam.com/241739/why-bre…
"£ needed a correction"
After the 23/6/2016
Andrea Leadsom decided a drop in sterling was a good thing
ibtimes.co.uk/tory-leadershi…
After the 23/6/2016
Andrea Leadsom decided a drop in sterling was a good thing
ibtimes.co.uk/tory-leadershi…
Here's a reminder on Andrea
It takes *quite a lot* to OUT DO Chris Grayling
It takes *quite a lot* to OUT DO Chris Grayling
"£ needed a correction"
“There’s that Italian expression, ‘Al mattino ha l'oro in bocca’ – the morning has gold in its mouth – and never has one felt so much that idea as this morning really."
independent.co.uk/news/business/…
“There’s that Italian expression, ‘Al mattino ha l'oro in bocca’ – the morning has gold in its mouth – and never has one felt so much that idea as this morning really."
independent.co.uk/news/business/…
"£ needed a correction"
Wilbur Ross has urged other countries to exploit the “God-given opportunity” to steal business from the U.K., according to a report in The Times.
Ross urged Cypriot financiers to strike during this “period of confusion”
cnbc.com/2016/12/27/bre…
Wilbur Ross has urged other countries to exploit the “God-given opportunity” to steal business from the U.K., according to a report in The Times.
Ross urged Cypriot financiers to strike during this “period of confusion”
cnbc.com/2016/12/27/bre…
£ needed a correction
The fuller quote
The fuller quote
"£ needed a correction"
"A survey of 175,000 products commissioned by Dispatches compared the average prices of food categories on June 23rd, 2016 and January 31st, 2017. Prices have risen more than 5 per cent across a range of essential food categories"
irishtimes.com/opinion/brexit…
"A survey of 175,000 products commissioned by Dispatches compared the average prices of food categories on June 23rd, 2016 and January 31st, 2017. Prices have risen more than 5 per cent across a range of essential food categories"
irishtimes.com/opinion/brexit…
"£ needed a correction"
here's a reminder of Jacob Rees Mogg and his desperation at linking an article so pathetically rubbish even the Sun had to update/clarify it
here's a reminder of Jacob Rees Mogg and his desperation at linking an article so pathetically rubbish even the Sun had to update/clarify it
https://mobile.twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1024895987876343808
#DespiteBrexit
This I am going to link here is a very very long compendium thread
This I am going to link here is a very very long compendium thread
https://twitter.com/rdanielkelemen/status/1348964732104007680
"There was going to be an impact"
Really
Pray tell
Can you let me know what study/plan/forecast that leavers specified that impact for
What was the impact?
How bad?
How long would it last?
What would you do to address it?
To help
Here's a reminder of the Vote Leave website
Really
Pray tell
Can you let me know what study/plan/forecast that leavers specified that impact for
What was the impact?
How bad?
How long would it last?
What would you do to address it?
To help
Here's a reminder of the Vote Leave website
Well it's an archive of it
Because Vote Leave are so EMBARASSED BY IT
They deleted it
I wonder why
archive.md/Yu2IR
Because Vote Leave are so EMBARASSED BY IT
They deleted it
I wonder why
archive.md/Yu2IR
There is *ONE* page in this slide that talks of economic damage
"UK trade and jobs will thrive after we Vote Leave"
So I don't see it saying that the damage from leaving WILL BE WORSE THAN A PANDEMIC BREXITEERS FUCKING LET RIP
"UK trade and jobs will thrive after we Vote Leave"
So I don't see it saying that the damage from leaving WILL BE WORSE THAN A PANDEMIC BREXITEERS FUCKING LET RIP
I AM GOING TO FUCKING USE CAPS
A decade of Tory austerity weakened UK public services
It weakened UK pandemic preparedness
And then Boris fucking Johnson and his sycophantic cult
Fucking let it rip
A decade of Tory austerity weakened UK public services
It weakened UK pandemic preparedness
And then Boris fucking Johnson and his sycophantic cult
Fucking let it rip
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1389904419689582592
Not only did they "let it rip"
BUT THEY DELIBERATELY FUCKING EXPLOITED THE PANDEMIC TO *TRY TO* HIDE THE DAMAGE FROM BREXIT
June 2020
BUT THEY DELIBERATELY FUCKING EXPLOITED THE PANDEMIC TO *TRY TO* HIDE THE DAMAGE FROM BREXIT
June 2020
They failed
OBR Oct 2021
“so far the data that we've seen on impact of Brexit, especially taking into account fact new trading arrangements came in in January is broadly consistent with assumption we had, which is that it would reduce our long run GDP by around 4%”
OBR Oct 2021
“so far the data that we've seen on impact of Brexit, especially taking into account fact new trading arrangements came in in January is broadly consistent with assumption we had, which is that it would reduce our long run GDP by around 4%”
But hey @RishiSunak
Let's all be "optimistic"
You have nothing
Nothing except anything you can sell and spin to try and protect yourself and your career
And thank you -- for showing just how empty that cupboard is
Let's all be "optimistic"
You have nothing
Nothing except anything you can sell and spin to try and protect yourself and your career
And thank you -- for showing just how empty that cupboard is
"price worth paying"
I hear this one often in brexit debates over the last 5 years
After people have skittled through the range of brexit deflectionary tropes
My favourite is the Soros antisemitism bullshit or the Kallergi conspiracy
Then you get to a "price worth paying"
I hear this one often in brexit debates over the last 5 years
After people have skittled through the range of brexit deflectionary tropes
My favourite is the Soros antisemitism bullshit or the Kallergi conspiracy
Then you get to a "price worth paying"
Who told you the price?
Who told you what the price was?
Because then we can have a discussion about how it was worth it
e.g.
Who told you what the price was?
Because then we can have a discussion about how it was worth it
e.g.
Was it worth lying to the Queen and unlawfully proroguing the mother of parliaments?
Was it worth signing a treaty that the British Prime Minister said no Unionist could support?
Of course we signed it either
1) knowing exactly what it was
2) intending never to honour
3) not having understood it
1+2
or 3
choose your "price"
Of course we signed it either
1) knowing exactly what it was
2) intending never to honour
3) not having understood it
1+2
or 3
choose your "price"
https://twitter.com/PandaScottish/status/1184843920578093057
Now we get to the final
"quite happy"
George Eustice MP
"quite happy"
George Eustice MP
https://twitter.com/mrjamesob/status/1453985683316645888
Imagine being "quite happy"
What is the scale ?
Quite happy = brexit cost = 2 x covid
Happy = brexit cost = 3 x covid
Sad = brexit cost = 4 x covid
What is the fucking scale?
What is the scale ?
Quite happy = brexit cost = 2 x covid
Happy = brexit cost = 3 x covid
Sad = brexit cost = 4 x covid
What is the fucking scale?
Your reminder George Eustice and @bernardjenkin in 2016
vs 2021
vs 2021
https://twitter.com/AlexanderPHRose/status/1453353769685618696
Anyway
I have ran through (I think) the majority of the past 5 years of bullshit deflectionary tropes employed by both the sellers of brexit
AND the victims of brexit
I have ran through (I think) the majority of the past 5 years of bullshit deflectionary tropes employed by both the sellers of brexit
AND the victims of brexit
And I end with a message
To the sellers - you really are shameless
There is nothing you will not stoop to (see 2016-2021)
To the victims - those sellers have such contempt for you. Please do not *continue* to prove their contempt correct.
To the sellers - you really are shameless
There is nothing you will not stoop to (see 2016-2021)
To the victims - those sellers have such contempt for you. Please do not *continue* to prove their contempt correct.
https://twitter.com/pandascottish/status/1342019458366382081
If you have read this far
Do have a look at my pinned tweet as it covers one man
One man at the heart of it all
Alas
Do have a look at my pinned tweet as it covers one man
One man at the heart of it all
Alas
@threadreaderapp unroll please
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
