Jacob Rees-Mogg said this about a year-long Brexit delay and it’s a glorious self-own
Jacob Rees-Mogg is not overly keen on the prospect of a long extension to the process of Britain leaving the EU.
So naturally he shared his thoughts about it on Twitter.
If a long extension leaves us stuck in the EU we should be as difficult as possible. We could veto any increase in the budget, obstruct the putative EU army and block Mr Macron’s integrationist schemes.
— Jacob Rees-Mogg (@Jacob_Rees_Mogg) April 5, 2019
And thank goodness he did, because as lots of people were only too happy to point out, it rather flew in the face of all his arguments why we so desperately need Brexit in the first place.
Here are 11 of the best.
1.
How strange – isn’t this the same guy who said the UK had no power to do any of these things in the EU and that’s why we had to leave. https://t.co/FTLD670HBH
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) April 5, 2019
2.
Look at this bloody Remainiac getting over-excited at the thought of staying in and having influence over undemocratic European decision making. https://t.co/L6Bu4AIu7P
— David Baddiel (@Baddiel) April 5, 2019
3.
Are you saying we do have significant influence in the EU after all now?
— Mark Gerred 🌹 (@markgerred) April 5, 2019
4.
Currently discussing Jacob Rees Mogg's new found faith in the UK's ability to exercise enormous power in Brussels on @LBC. Do join us.
— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) April 5, 2019
5.
Let’s use powers I repeatedly lied we didn’t have because I’m very upset about something the UK would have to actually requesthttps://t.co/iPnmcLOkD1
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 5, 2019
6.
Brexiters: the UK is powerless as an EU Member State
Also Brexiters: the UK can block loads of stuff as an EU Member State https://t.co/qt0BPZekX8— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) April 5, 2019
7.
Inside the EU we have control. The power to veto budget increases and block changes that are not in the interests of our country. Just ask Jacob Rees-Mogg. https://t.co/dsmDKBgrLA
— David Lammy (@DavidLammy) April 5, 2019
8.
OMG, there it is, so after all it is a democracy, with Veto rights?
— SamArcher77 (@Archer77Sam) April 5, 2019
9.
leading Brexiter suddenly notices that, when inside the EU, the UK has quite a lot of power…. https://t.co/gv6tilR5EZ
— Anne Applebaum (@anneapplebaum) April 5, 2019
10.
Jacob,
If we have a long extension…
We should do what’s in the British interest – as we always have done within the EU.
Your tweet is a full-on admission of the huge levels of power that we have always held within the EU.
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) April 5, 2019
11.
U ok hun?
— David Allen Green (@davidallengreen) April 5, 2019
To conclude …
2016: we hold all the cards
2019: we should shit the bed for attention https://t.co/iPnmcLOkD1— James Felton (@JimMFelton) April 5, 2019
Oh, and this.
I do not want to keep banging on about brexit, but I just get exasperated. Look at the tweet below – this overgrown schoolboy (surely whichever side of the debate you are on you’d agree this is nothing more than a tantrum) is a potential prime minister. Where are the grown-ups? https://t.co/xMBdU8qdZa
— Brian Cox (@ProfBrianCox) April 5, 2019
Oh, go on then.
Such a pitiless embarrassment. Reducing Britain to the status of a bawling child on the world stage, good for nothing but smearing shit its own face and everyone else's. https://t.co/WM0CO4hvMO
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) April 5, 2019