I got this email yesterday, from the inspiring campaigners called 'Led by Donkeys':
On Monday night Nigel Farage finally admitted that “Brexit has failed”.
Of course he's doing his best to blame others for how it's been delivered but it's hard to think of anyone who bears more responsibility for Brexit than Farage himself.
This feels like a moment. We're finally at a point where the country can agree that Brexit was a mistake. Farage's friends in the right-wing press will no doubt spin his admission into something else, which is precisely why we want to get his words up in towns and cities across the country.
Chip in here to get Farage's words up on giant billboards across the country
(mock up of what the posters will look like)
In 2016 they said “Take Back Control”. In 2019 they said “Get Brexit Done”. Well now we want them to own a new three-word-slogan: “Brexit Has Failed”.
We've spoken to some billboard companies and if we bulk buy we can get them down to about £500 per site. We've set an initial target of 20 but there's no reason why we can't get to 50 or indeed 100. Every penny raised goes directly into putting these posters up and having countless people see those words from “Mr Brexit” himself.
There's a long way to go to undo the damage Farage and his pals have done, but the country agreeing that their Brexit project has been an abject failure is a good place to start.
Let's pay for billboards across the country making Farage own his failure
The argument's now over. Let's get the word out across the country.
LBDx
If you have a spare fiver it seems like a moment to get the message out.
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When things impact people directly, they take notice.
The prospect of the loss of several hundred thousand jobs in the motor industry will do just that.
The search for the guilty will soon commence.
But not if the same press and mass media that promoted it can prevent it – and they will, for their friends and servants, the Tory party are still in power….. and the potnetial inheritors, the ‘Labour’ Party, are still signed up to the disaster.
But, yes. The billboards are definitely worth doing.
Nigel,
You right about the toxic tabloids and Telegraph.
I have seen a six stages of a project ( can’t remember them all) and one of the last stages after the ‘hunt for the guilty ‘is ‘the punishment of the innocent’.
Blaming everyone else is their favourite tactic.
Hmmm…………..a word of warning now about the future line of attack.
Most of us remainers are now as far as I am concerned justified in our skepticism about BREXIT. For me still, there is a proper investigation into how the vote was financed etc., still wanting where there are still many heads to be had on plates. But it is no good just say ‘We were right’.
Therefore, Leave voters need to have it spelt out to them that they have been let down by the Tory party and even Farage who really had no cogent plan at all the take us out of the EU in a sensible way. This is because.
1. They just wanted to disrupt our democracy – they did not expect to win.
2. They were too thick to really understand just how clever Dominic Cummings and Cambridge Analytica were.
3. They are too ignorant and thick to understand the illegality of how well know social media platforms work with personal
data.
In short, the Tories and Farage have let the Leave vote down (and I as a Remain voter also had a right to have our exit from the EU to be done properly).
That is the most damaging thing we can do to both Farage and the Tory party. Make sure Leave voters know just how incompetent the Tories and Farage and his mates are. Maybe some will think on that and these halfwits may never have their day in our democracy again.
Agreed, PSR, a thorough, independent and detailed investigation into (and report on) the financing of the Brexit campaign is essential. There should also be some form of effective retribution for those shown to have broken laws.
I can’t speak for Wales, but both Scotland and the non-Unionist half of N Ireland, as the votes show, knew it would be disastrous, so you might not need to invest in posters in Scotland, but reminding the DUP of their complicity might be a good idea.
On the front of Led by Donkeys book is a Farage quote saying, “If Brexit is a disaster, I will go and live abroad, I’ll go and live somewhere else”, a tweet from 27th March 2017.
What’s the difference between a disaster and a failure?
Why hasn’t he gone yet?
Doesn’t he already live in Germany with his German-born wife (or, possibly, France)?
They are separated. He lives in Bromley.
BBC correspondent – ‘Mr. Farage, what is your assessment of Brexit?’
Nigel – ‘Brexit has failed.’
BBC correspondent – ‘Why and how has this happened?’
Nigel – ‘A big boy did it and ran away.’
As with the CBI, the Brexiteers could face a rapid collapse in credibility.
Not only that but if for example the Motor Industry in the UK closes down there could be a lot of very unhappy people looking to express their displeasure to those that promoted Brexit.
It might not end at all well
I’m not convinced it’s ending particularly well already!