This Tory MP’s Brexit dividend is not the glorious triumph she thinks it is
Not for the first time we find ourselves asking: ‘What’s the colour of the sky in Nathalie Elphicke’s world?’
The Conservative MP for Dover, you might remember, went mildly viral a few days back after confidently telling her fellow MPs that those enormous lorry queues in her constituency were nothing to do with Brexit.
Nathalie Elphicke Dover beset by traffic jams and lorry queues and ‘it’s nothing to do with #brexit’ hilarious stand up routine at PMQs.
— Simon Gosden. Esq. #fbpe 3.5% 🕷🇪🇺🇬🇧🏴☠️🦠💙 (@g_gosden) February 9, 2022
Now the Tory MP has been on Newsnight explaining just one of the many Brexit dividends the country is enjoying right now. But we’re not sure it’s the glorious triumph she appears to think it is.
“We’re already greatly benefitting here in Dover from Brexit because we’ve had to employ hundreds of people to deal with all the Brexit red tape” 🤡🤡
You couldn’t make these people up ! Dover MP Nathalie Elphicke on #Newsnight pic.twitter.com/cwvzl1yxWV
— Alex Taylor (@AlexTaylorNews) February 17, 2022
That noise you can hear is people all over the country facepalming into next week (the fact she begins with ‘so-called’ makes it even better).
And here are just a few of the things people were saying about it today.
Insanity.
Is this what brexit was for? So we could increase red tape, hire customs officers and reduce private enterprise?
Put that on the side of a bus.
— Lizzy Price 🧡 (@LizzyJPrice) February 17, 2022
I feel sorry for the good people of Dover but honestly Nathalie Elphicke MP is the hottest comedy ticket in Britain right now. https://t.co/L0ZpW5vvtV
— Otto English (@Otto_English) February 17, 2022
She blamed EU for the red tape so is she now implying EU are responsible for the jobs created
— ruth frances (@misssadietonks) February 17, 2022
You literally could not make these morons up https://t.co/5HFiNyIikr
— Dom Joly (@domjoly) February 17, 2022
Ah another Brexit ‘benefit.’ Jobs creation with all the extra red tape brexit is causing, that we said brexit would put a stop too 🤡. You just can’t…
— Alan (@ARHunter1980) February 17, 2022
Big "The Black Death was great for my church as I could charge a lot of money for burials and I employed 8 gravediggers" energy https://t.co/4hW2a8ZqWA
— Dan Kaszeta (@DanKaszeta) February 17, 2022
We don’t want to be unkind or anything, but it really does beg this question.
She surely can't be that thick? https://t.co/kVnWIy9LHV
— Fanny Is Bored With Being Gaslighted (@Angel41527796) February 17, 2022
And finally this, one of those rare moments when you don’t need to speak a word of the language to understand (and agree with) every word.
Je n'invente rien 🤡
La prochaine fois que vous vous plaignez du débat politique en France, ayez une pensée pour la députée de Douvres pour qui un énorme bienfait du Brexit est l'embauche de centaines de douaniers pour gérer toute la paperasse due, eh oui ! au … Brexit ! 🤡🤡 https://t.co/qXGahz9v1F
— Alex Taylor (@AlexTaylorNews) February 17, 2022
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