This Tory MP wins “Brexit self-own of the week” – our 15 favourite burns

We’ve grown accustomed to Brexiters shooting themselves in the foot, with Nigel Farage’s recent “little plane” fiasco, Boris Johnson claiming to know more about the car industry than the CEO of Jaguar Land Rover and Ben Bradley drawing everyone’s attention to the fact that Brexit is like a disaster movie. The phenomenon is so common, we may have to make it a regular weekly feature, just to fit them all in. This week’s involves Tory MP, Daniel Kawczynski, who posted this shocking self-own.

Any attempts by Remainer MPs to delay or obstruct #Brexit must be opposed. Today I have formally asked Polish Government to veto any motions by EU to allow extension of Article 50. We are leaving 11pm on March 29th as promised @StandUp4Brexit

— Daniel Kawczynski (@DKShrewsbury) January 22, 2019

His surprising admission had quite a few people pointing out the irony.

1.

This is extraordinarily reckless. Do you realise you are lobbying a foreign power to block the British Parliament from working in the national interest? Tell me with a straight face you care about parliamentary sovereignty. https://t.co/TyFcmIcuNM

— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) January 22, 2019

2.

"Let’s take back control and make Parliament* sovereign again!"

*The Polish Parliamenthttps://t.co/48G4G16fHy

— David Schneider (@davidschneider) January 22, 2019

3.

Leaver MP lobbies a foreign power to undermine the stated will of the British parliament. Brexit's logical end point. https://t.co/j6loD6tHC4

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) January 22, 2019

4.

From "the foreigners are taking our sovereignty" to "Poland please take away our sovereignty". https://t.co/wc95C6e0sf

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) January 22, 2019

5.

2016: "Take Back Control….Parliamentary Sovereignty blah blah blah"

2019: "The House of Commons is doing stuff I, Daniel Kawczynski, do not agree with. So I have asked my friends in Poland to get the EU to veto it."https://t.co/j2uOY35HWe

— Tom Peck (@tompeck) January 22, 2019

6.

One shouldn't throw the word "treason" around. But isn't lobbying a foreign power to subvert the decisions of parliament close to treasonable?https://t.co/HvOd9ex7Ls

— Nick Cohen (@NickCohen4) January 22, 2019

7.

So the people who voted brexit because 'too many Poles were taking their jobs' will be expecting help from the Poles to leave? https://t.co/SFAjBbORYj

— Aidan Kelly (@AidanKelly4) January 22, 2019

8.

We have reached the stage of Brexit insanity where an obscure MP believes he can dictate the policy of both his country and another like the world revolves around him https://t.co/W8mfkpcjcu

— David Henig (@DavidHenigUK) January 22, 2019