11 favourite takedowns of Lord Digby Jones who blamed everyone but Brexiteers for the Brexit mess
Lord Digby Jones – crossbench peer, erstwhile CBI chief and fervent Brexit supporter – has worked out who is to blame for the Brexity mess we now find ourselves in.
It’s Europe, it’s people who didn’t vote to leave, it’s the ‘establishment’ (Lord Digby Jones – clue’s in the title – sits in the House of Lords) and it’s Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.
Hey Mr Tusk. Those who pushed for Brexit did have a plan but it required your lot not to bully the UK, for Remoaners & the Establishment not to sabotage the wish of the majority & for Jezza’s mob not to play tribal party politics with a major National issue.
— Lord Digby Jones (@Digbylj) February 12, 2019
So everyone except the government and, er, the people in charge of Brexit.
Except what Jones had to say didn’t quite ring true for a lot of people and these nine responses put it best.
1.
Those nasty peeepwl over there were nasty to us. Vey all ganged up and didn’t do what we reeely want. If only evewyone did we reeely want it would all be shiney and the meadows would be gweeen and full of geese and things. So we will scweeem an stamp an SMASH it up …nuh nuh https://t.co/Ddeanl8jQP
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) February 13, 2019
2.
Is that plan similar to my plan to win an Olympic 100m gold medal, which requires everyone else to stand still and let me win?
— Stephen Ives (@SteveDPIves) February 13, 2019
3.
By his own explicit admission, the Brexit "plan" did *not* take account of:
– the counter-party in the negotiation;
– the need to win over those who needed to be won over;
– the domestic political process.If there were a plan, then it could not have been a worse one. https://t.co/TTxTHaRjRh
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) February 13, 2019
4.
You seem to be saying that ‘taking back control’ really meant surrendering it completely? https://t.co/vElVuTVRGf
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) February 13, 2019
5.
I very much hope your move to Guernsey, which you told the local press has absolutely nothing to do with a desire to pay less tax, goes well. Lord Jones https://t.co/CayFSLlPUv
— John Crace (@JohnJCrace) February 13, 2019
6.
We'd be in a lot better place right now if a few parents had done a better job of teaching their kids to take responsibility for their actions. https://t.co/pOeGjirGw1
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) February 13, 2019
7.
Dear Lord Jones
Please could you explain how I am part of "the establishment" whereas you are not and how my German wife and I (losing sleep over what is going to happen to us) are "bullying" you?
Kind regards
A Remoaner
— Dr Mike Ward (@Schroedinger99) February 13, 2019
8.
I reported on the ref, I spoke to countless leave campaigners before & after. And no. There was no plan. Some wanted EEA. Some wanted customs union. Others a more arms-length relationship. We voted for a departure but not a destination. That’s the prob we’re still wrestling with https://t.co/Ne61g2C6G8
— Ed Conway (@EdConwaySky) February 13, 2019
9.
I’ve fixed that for you. You’re welcome. pic.twitter.com/h2QzKzKXcX
— Nick Harvey (@mrnickharvey) February 13, 2019
10.
"No plan survives contact with the enemy." – Helmuth von Moltke, attrib. pic.twitter.com/UfhzQSyNmS
— Henry Mance (@henrymance) February 13, 2019
11.
We did have a plan but it required the EU to abandon its interests and submit to ours and for our opponents to hold up their hands and admit that we were right and they were wrong. I have no idea why it failedhttps://t.co/zyg93G6Nz6
— Nick Cohen (@NickCohen4) February 13, 2019
And just in case you think you remember Jones from the telly a few years back and you think, actually you remember him to be quite a good egg, you’re thinking of the wrong person.
Oh God I am – I mean they are – as well aren’t we. https://t.co/P9kecyvQEy
— Ian Martin (@IanMartin) February 13, 2019
Us too, us too.