21 terrible things that should have happened “due to Brexit” – but somehow didn’t

“Happy Independence Day, patriots”

© Brexit Facts4EU.Org 2020

A cheerful New Year’s guest article by our friends at The Alliance of British Entrepreneurs

Yesterday Brexit Facts4EU.Org listed some of the many organisations and individuals who lined up to tell us all to vote Remain in the EU Referendum of 23 June 2016. Today we bring you an amusing guest article by our friends at The Alliance of British Entrepreneurs (ABE).

ABE was set up to give a voice to the pro-Brexit businesses and entrepreneurs of the United Kingdom. Yesterday they produced a thread of 21 tweets, listing some of the wilder claims and exaggerations of the massive Remain/Rejoin lobby. With ABE’s permission we have converted all these tweets into an article, as we know that many readers do not use Twitter.

We hope you enjoy this as much as we did!

“Happy Independence Day, patriots”

By The Alliance of British Entrepreneurs, New Year’s Day, 2021

Its Day 1 outside the EU so we wanted to remind you of all the things Remainers told you would happen on Brexit day. Never in the history of political movements has one side fibbed so spectacularly and (at times) hilariously.

The articles linked to from the images below are all © of their respective organisations.


[1] How are you all feeling today...down there?

Well please be careful because now we've left the EU we are all due waves of super gonorrhoea.

Wrapping yourself in the EU flag and putting #FBPE in your biographical details on Twitter is the only known cure.
[#FBPE stands for ‘Follow Back Pro-EU’ and is used by Remainer/Rejoiners on Twitter to indicate that they support the EU and the UK’s former membership of it. - Ed.]


[2] Are you hungry? Well get used to it.

We were fed (excuse the pun) stories as late as November 2020 that Brexit would lead to 60% reduction in haulage meaning 'months' of food shortages.


[3] Forget those foreign holidays unless you fancy swimming the Channel.

As late as October 2020 we were told that all flights would be grounded. Both sides quietly agreed to contingencies in December. Quelle surprise!


[4] In March 2020 as COVID hit Europe, we were told the only way to obtain ventilators was by joining the EU scheme.

We refused and Remainers screeched that the Government was putting Brexit over breathing. The EU scheme obtained...... zero ventilators.


[5] Another EU scheme another failure. We were told the only way to get vaccines fast and efficiently was through the EU. Brexit 'would delay things'.

Instead the UK fast-tracked approval and is a month ahead of Brussels, saving thousands of lives.


[6] 'CUSTOMS CHAOS', 'Thousands of trucks backing up for miles'...

In reality, the New York Times reports that “a new era began Friday morning without much fuss.”

“It does seem pretty calm,” said Elizabeth De Jong, policy director of trade group Logistics UK.


[7] 'We need the EU to protect our oceans.'

Yet on Day 1, the UK government have banned the environmentally catastrophic practice of pulse fishing, putting our fishing standards above those of the EU.

Super trawlers next!


[8] In March 2019 we were treated to an article by Remainer Dr Rebecca Grossman saying that Brexit would lead to more unplanned pregnancies and the NHS running out of condoms...

Brexit baby boom anyone?


[9] Despite the EU standing by while Russia annexed part of Ukraine, we're told we have them to thank for peace in our time.

So much so that Donald Tusk said Brexit would lead to the 'destruction of western civilisation'.

Tins hats on!!


[10] Among all the warnings of blackouts and chaos, we seem to have forgotten the real casualty of Brexit... Sperm.

We were told our vote would lead to a national sperm shortage.

WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!


[11] Company after company told us they would leave.

Like Siemens who threatened to depart... ...then invested £310m into a wind turbine blade manufacturing facility in Hull creating 1,000 jobs, with a further £200m investment in Goole (700 jobs).


[12] Then of course there was the famous 'Brexodus' of talent and jobs from the City.

Analysts predicted ‘hundreds of thousands’ would go. Instead they got just hundreds.

And the financial services sector went from strength to strength. Humble pie, anyone?


[13] Remember when Goldman Sachs said Brexit would see them reconsider their position in the UK?

Well they went on to spend £1 billion on a huge new European HQ... in London.

They have just said the UK is ‘strong buy’ in the medium/long term.


[14] The UK economy will crumble after Brexit the ‘experts’ said.

They now say the UK will strengthen its position as the 5th biggest economy globally, roaring ahead of France - the EU's great hope - as our tech sector ‘booms’.

Non, je ne regrette rien.


[15] ‘Tiny UK will never get the same trade deals the EU negotiated’.

Errrrrrm. Wrong again. We’ve rolled over or improved every single meaningful trade deal.


[16] From the Government’s own leaflet in 2016, stating a zero tariff, zero quota deal was not possible without paying millions to Brussels and accepting EU rules.

Paging ‘Dave’ and George Osborne?!

We just agreed exactly that.


[17] Downbeat experts predicted the end of the UK’s tech sector. Brexit would hand the crown to the continent.

Instead, post 2016, the sector grew even faster and widened the cap between the U.K. and it’s European competitors.

Whoops!


[18] Has World War 3 started yet?

Might have missed it due to the NYE hangover.


[19] ‘Brexit will ruin the British food and drink sector.’

Tell that to Aldi who are removing EU producers and making a £3.5 billion investment in over 1000 local UK food and drink companies.

Yum!


[20] Lunchtimes will never be the same again.

RIP to the BLT after Brexit.

I mean sure, it has been a staple of the British table since the 1700s, but apparently we now need to be part of the EU to enjoy a ham sarnie.


[21] ‘European doctors will all leave and our NHS will collapse.’

The number of European doctors working in the UK has been declining since 2010, long before Brexit, but it actually went UP in the last 12 months.

Nurse! Remainers are telling fibs again!


Observations

One of the things which has kept the Brexit Facts4EU.Org team going over the past five years has been the unrelenting good humour and wit of the vast majority of our readers – on this website and on our social media accounts. The contrast with the Remoaner-Rejoiner community has been stark.

Once again this has been demonstrated by The Alliance of British Entrepreneurs – a serious organisation set up to give pro-Brexit British business a voice. Like us, their mission may be serious, but that doesn’t stop them injecting some humour into things occasionally.

And if you can’t do that on the day the UK finally exited the EU, when can you do it?!

We would like to thank ABE and particularly Tom, for the amusing take on some of the wilder stories we have all had to deal with over the past few years. We can only hope that Remoaner-Rejoiners continue to give us a laugh from time-to-time, as the UK adjusts to its bright new future – in the World and outside the EU.

Our own future

We are unsure whether there is now sufficient public appetite to want to fund an independent organisation such as ours. Perhaps the vast majority of people will now breathe a big sigh of relief and say “job done”. We would not blame them in the slightest. If we were not experts in the EU and Brexit - and if we were watching the BBC, Sky News, or ITN each day - we would be unaware of the dangers ahead, and of what the UK has really signed up to.

When we first started we thought we would be committed through the Referendum period and perhaps for up to six months afterwards. It has of course turned out to be a much longer journey, as it has for everyone reading this. We had even started to consider covering lock-downs, freedom of expression, climate change, the ‘Great Reset’, and reforming the BBC and the schools of 'journalism' in our universities, in the same forensic detail that we have applied to Brexit.

Is Brexit now "done"?

We will now be reviewing our future. Much will depend on whether people wish us to continue, and the acid test of this will be whether we receive donations in these coming days. Thank you to those who have kindly made donations in recent days – we are very grateful. And if any of you have any rich friends, just ten of them donating £500 per month each would make the world of difference!

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Finally, we wish all readers a very happy New Year's weekend and all our best for 2021 and freedom!

[ Source: The Alliance of British Entrepreneurs ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Sat 02 Jan 2021

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