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T_i_B

(14,738 posts)
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 05:11 AM Jul 2016

Brexiter’s excuses increasingly bollocks

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/brexiters-excuses-increasingly-bollocks-20160707110366

A MAN’S excuses for problems clearly caused by Brexit are getting increasingly desperate. ‘Leave’ voter Martin Bishop has been struggling to convince people that all the bad things experts predicted were nonsense, due to them all starting to happen.

Bishop said: “The pound has plummeted but that’s excellent news for exports and tourism. Think what a boost it will be to those souvenir stalls selling teddy bears dressed as Beefeaters.

“And it’s probably just a coincidence that loads of racist attacks occurred at the most nationalistic moment in recent history since the Falklands.”

Colleague Donna Sheridan said: “Martin thinks everything supports Brexit. Today he said making it harder to travel in Europe would ‘rejuvenate classic holiday resorts like Clacton-on-Sea’.

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Brexiter’s excuses increasingly bollocks (Original Post) T_i_B Jul 2016 OP
They can run, but they can't hide. They can spin until they're dizzy, but the dire Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #1
The Daily Mash is a satire site like the Onion, I think. auntpurl Jul 2016 #2
Makes sense that satire reads as news in the current circumstances. Nothing would surprise... Surya Gayatri Jul 2016 #3
To be brutally honest.... T_i_B Jul 2016 #4
 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
1. They can run, but they can't hide. They can spin until they're dizzy, but the dire
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 06:35 AM
Jul 2016

effects will continue apace.

Own your disastrous, duplicitous results, you bastards.

auntpurl

(4,311 posts)
2. The Daily Mash is a satire site like the Onion, I think.
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 08:07 AM
Jul 2016

However, this doesn't read like satire, because I have seen/heard equally ludicrous things over the past 2 weeks.

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)
4. To be brutally honest....
Thu Jul 7, 2016, 09:10 AM
Jul 2016

....this is how the conversation in my local pub runs most nights. People who voted "leave" making increasingly desperate arguments.

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