This Tory MP said strangers talk to him on the tube about Brexit – 14 brutal and very funny takedowns
Here’s Tory MP and hardline Brexiteer Owen Paterson telling Channel 4’s Jon Snow exactly why Theresa May and Parliament must get on with the job and leave the EU on 29 March.
Partly, he said, because people are so frustrated by the delays, which he knows because so many strangers keep coming up to him on the tube and telling him exactly that.
"People come up to me on the tube, on the trains, saying 'just get on with it'."
Conservative MP Owen Paterson says "people would be dismayed" if the UK fails to leave the EU. pic.twitter.com/ReevIkveW4
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) March 19, 2019
‘If we don’t leave this whole saga carries on. People will be dismayed. People come up to me on the tube, on the trains, saying just get on with it’
And there was something about this – well, quite a lot about this, that didn’t ring true with people – and it prompted some brutal and very funny replies.
1.
Two ways you can tell this is a lie:
1) People don't talk to strangers on the tube
2) Nobody on the tube would recognise Owen Paterson anyway https://t.co/C6m4gGlnXf— Jonn Elledge (@JonnElledge) March 19, 2019
2.
“Strangers talk to me on the tube”. Have brexiters ever actually visited Britain?
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) March 19, 2019
3.
No one is talking to anyone on the tube @_DHOTYA https://t.co/Rv5ARXIr1W
— Louise Haigh MP (@LouHaigh) March 19, 2019
4.
I find that incredibly hard to believe. Nobody speaks on the Tube, nobody recognises Owen Paterson, nobody in London wants to leave.
— Iain (@iainl7) March 19, 2019
5.
IF you ever get on a tube, ‘Get on with it’ is not what people are saying.
1. You don’t get on a tube.
2. No-one knows who you are.
3. You don’t get on a tube.
4. You really don’t.— Nonny Nay Tinge ‘n’ Tint Drama Queen (@NonnyHay) March 19, 2019
6.
People come up to me on non-existent ferries and say ‘Owen Paterson is a massive liar, isn’t he?’ https://t.co/ghDIxDQN3l
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) March 19, 2019
7.
As if anyone would actually recognise Owen Paterson on the tube. Is he sure they aren’t saying “just get out of my way”?
— 🔶 Barry Smith #FBPE 🇪🇺 (@BarryNL) March 19, 2019
8.
Owen I think that's just people on the tube asking you to get out of the way. https://t.co/GINNuLy6SM
— Sam Freedman (@Samfr) March 19, 2019
9.
I can just about believe someone coming up to him and saying “sorry, I thought you were Robert Bathurst for a minute but now I can see you properly I’m very disappointed. “ https://t.co/HB4fCiML4N
— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) March 19, 2019
