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Feb 4 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
Who wants to play BorisLiesBingo ?

Rules Below

Coming up, 10 of Johnson's favourite PMQ's lies, and at the end of the thread, the master tweet to reply to with your entries!
Lie 1: Best Vaccine Rollout In Europe / World / This Spiral Arm of the Milky Way

(Reality: 15th in Europe and 38th in the World)
Lie 2: Vaccine Rollout only possible because of Brexit
No: channel4.com/news/factcheck…
No:
fullfact.org/health/coronav…
Hell, no (click it) :
Lie 3: 400K More jobs compared to pre-pandemic
Nope (600K fewer):
fullfact.org/economy/januar…

Lie 4: Fastest Growth in the G7
Nope, 6th actually :
Lie 5: 14% lower Crime rate
Actually it was a 14% INCREASE, but what the heck, eh?
ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulati…
Lie 6: Starmer wanted lockdown before Xmas.
Just a straight out lie: Starmer welcomed "additional measures" to curb Omicron rates before Christmas 2021 - but he did NOT call for a lockdown.
Lie 7: Starmer is a rejoiner

Starmer knows that re-joining is off the table in his political lifetime. Yes he supported remain in 2016, and 2nd ref until it became impossible, but he has been absolutely clear about Labour policy TODAY.
Lie 8: Starmer is a nonce
This is what Johnson was implying: that Starmer covered for Savile - why'd he do that eh, eh? (Says a former friend of Ghislaine Maxwell) Quite the dirtiest, nastiest lie Johnson has told, TBH. Vile.
bbc.co.uk/news/60213975
Lie 9: Johnson got the big decisions right
Jesus Aitch, this is the biggest, bare-faced, gaslighting-ist whopper of the lot.
Lie 10: Johnson "Got Brexit Done"
So why are there 15km tailbacks in Kent and demented DUP men howling at the moon in Belfast? In truth the oven ready deal was sham, to sucker voters in GE2019 - they never, ever, intended to honour it:
PMQ's 09 Feb 2022

1. Best Rollout
2. Brexit made rollout possible
3. 400K jobs
4. Best GDP in G7
5. Lower crime
6. Starmer / lockdown
7. Starmer re-joiner
8. Starmer / Savile
9. BJ big decisions
10. BJ Got Brexit Done

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Jim Grace Profile picture
Jan 23
Oh FFS. "Mutual enforcement":
a hard border between NI and IRL, but the border officials swap around - Irish check NORTHBOUND goods for compliance with British rules and British check SOUTHBOUND goods for compliance with EU rules.

Was there ever a more stupid idea?

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A. IT CREATES A HARD BORDER BETWEEN NI AND IRL.

Is a young nationalist firebrand, who objects to "Brits asking for papers" really going to be mollified by the check occurring on his southbond journey, instead of his northbound return?

I've never heard anything so dumb.

2/
B. It means asking the EU to trust the UK to enforce EU border controls. However, after 5 years of lying, lawbreaking, treaty-reneging, threats, insults & general f*ckery, the UK can be trusted to honour an agreement like you'd trust Jimmy Savile to give your daughter a lift.

3/
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Jan 22
By 2050 Brexit will have cost us TWENTY times as much as Net zero.

My workings:

A. Cost of Net Zero.
The OBR say it is £321Bn (roughly £10Bn per year, or 40p per person per day)

instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainers/pay…

Fair enough.

1/4
B. Cost of Brexit.

This has 2 components:
1. Hit to UK GDP
2. Cost of Brexit "red tape"

1. GDP
(The OBR say "4%"
obr.uk/forecasts-in-d… )

What does that come to by 2050?

Assuming £2.35Tn GDP in 2022 and 1.9% per year long term trend growth, it totals £3.6Tn by 2050

2/4
2. Brexit red tape.

In 2019 the UK had about £700Bn 2-way trade with the SM (EU + Norway + Switzerland + NI)

Richard Barfield has gleaned from Government sources that NTB's will add about 10/11% to costs.



With 1.9% trend growth: £2.8Bn by 2050.

3/4
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Jan 13
Somewhere in a secure room, in a large building in Vauxhall Cross, a meeting recently took place. It went something like this:

"Stand up, M! Can't you see I am the Home Secretary!"

"Sorry, Home Secretary, I didn't see you behind the chairback... How can I help you?"

1/
"You've seen the news, M, the whole Government is topplin'; Johnson has blown it; this partyin' durin' lockdown is destroyin' us! We need a DISTRACTION!. I want the "special file", the "political file", I want the deadliest, darkest, dirtiest dirt you have on Labour."

2/
"Don't you want to holdvit back fir the next General Election, Home Sec? Like normal"

"No, dolt! We need it NOW! And it better be good!"

"Well... um... we have something on one of them, but he's a brexiter like you, Home Sec"

"Fuck him! Brexit got done"

3/
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Jan 9
Frosty has set out his manifesto!
Free markets
Lower Taxes
Free speech
Burn the planet

That's it..
Sorry I couldn't pad it out to a full tweet...
More detail?
OK:
"Free speech" means banning "woke warriors" from criticising Frosty on twitter (mea culpa), because nothing says "free speech" like censoring dissenting views.

How to define "woke warrior"?
Anyone who disagrees with Frosty, obvs.
"Free markets"

Yup; the man who took us out of the largest single market in the world, and left the UK as the only country whose free market is smaller than it's geographical footprint, is talking about "free markets".
I'd sooner take marriage guidance from Johnson.
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Jan 4
Spot on, by @CharlesTannock : how could leaving the EU regulatory system in 2021 enable a vaccination rollout that was already begun the previous year? (Unless Dr Who was involved somehow.)

However, there are at least two occasions when Brexit HAMPERED our rollout.

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The first occasion was April when an AZ vaccine clotting risk in younger people was found. We switched to Pfizer, but had to slow down the programme dramatically so that we would not run out before our 2nd Pfizer order could arrive in September.



2/
If we had been part of the EU pool we would not have had to wait until September for that 2nd delivery (60M doses) all the time stretching out our original 40M doses like a grand-prix car running the last lap on fumes.

The second occasion was before Xmas when 5-11 year olds

3/
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Jan 2
I agree with @chrisgrey on most things Brexit, but not this.

I strongly suspect that DF & BJ ALWAYS intended to renege on the oven ready deal and they only signed it because they knew a platform of "no deal" in GE19 would be fatal.

I strongly suspect that they...

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always planned to arrange some Loyalist violence ( much as British Governments of the 70's and 80's did with the Miami Show Band massacre, the Dublin bombing and the Pat Finucane assassination ) and use this to justify triggering A16.

2/
This also explains the strangely dilatory border infrastructure preparation in Belfast and Larne between 2019 and 2021 - why build something you never intended to use?

3/
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