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Mystery posters are trolling politicians with their own words

Mysterious billboards have been spotted trolling politicians with rash promises that they must wish people would forget. First up was this tweet that David Cameron must wish had been deleted – his promise from the 2015 election campaign: “Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice – stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with […]

Ben Gelblum by Ben Gelblum
2019-01-11 10:51
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Mysterious billboards have been spotted trolling politicians with rash promises that they must wish people would forget.

First up was this tweet that David Cameron must wish had been deleted – his promise from the 2015 election campaign:

Last night we started a little project to record for posterity the prophetic words of our leaders. Here’s the first one (Manor Rd / A10 in London). Eyes peeled for more #LedByDonkeys #TweetsYouCantDelete @David_Cameron @Ed_Miliband pic.twitter.com/9ED5MUPTTn

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 9, 2019

“Britain faces a simple and inescapable choice – stability and strong Government with me, or chaos with Ed Miliband” the former Tory PM warned solemnly.

And we all know how “stable and strong” things have been since he uttered those words, resigned straight after losing a divisive EU referendum campaign, which has left Britain with so much stability that we need this poster to remind us thanks!

Day two of a project to turn the predictions of our Brexit overlords into #TweetsYouCantDelete. You asked for @DavidDavisMP, we give you @DavidDavisMP. Vote in thread below for next poster – location will be a leave-voting town. (Source for DD quote: Hansard) #LedByDonkeys pic.twitter.com/5dVYMy5EKS

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

The next poster to appear contained these perhaps over-optimistic words from David Davis who resigned as Brexit Secretary last year, angry at the Brexit deal he had been responsible for working on.

“There will be no downside to Brexit,” he had promised. “Only a considerable upside.”

The mystery posters were put up by Led By Donkeys who remained tight-lipped about who they are but told The London Economic: “We feel we’re offering a public information service.

“The people steering the ship of state have a lamentable record of predicting the future, and yet as ministers and backbenchers they’re now telling us that Brexit will lead to the Sunlit uplands. So we’re recording for posterity what they once said.”

And they hinted: “Next stop leave-voting regions.”

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Led By Donkeys say they are “a merry band of concerned citizens” and not affiliated to or involved with any political Brexit groups.

They told The London Economic that they are “just doing our thing after having a conversation down the pub, coming up with the idea and thinking ‘Sod it, let’s just do it.'”

The pranksters have offered up a series of tweets that politicians (should) regret saying and are asking people to vote on which should be made into the next poster.

You can vote by retweeting or liking your favourite:

'The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want.’

– Michael Gove, April 2016 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

'The free trade agreement that we will have to do with the European Union should be one of the easiest in human history.’

– Liam Fox, July 2017 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

Getting a Brexit deal 'is like threading the eye of a needle. If you have a good eye and a steady hand, it’s easy enough.'

– David Davis, 3 December 2016 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

'I hadn’t quite understood the full extent of this but… we are particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing.’

– Dominic Raab, November 2018 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

'Absolutely nobody is talking about threatening our place in the Single Market.’

– Daniel Hannan, 12 May 2015 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

Within 2 years, before negotiation with the EU is likely to be complete, & therefore before anything material has changed, we can negotiate a free trade area massively larger than the EU. The new trade agreements will come into force at point of exit.’

– David Davis, July 2016

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

THEN:

‘There will be a free trade agreement that allows all our businesses to trade freely to and from continental Europe… It will take a relatively short period of time.’

– Chris Grayling in February 2016 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

NOW:

‘These are going to be lengthy negotiations, they're going to challenging negotiations… Nobody has ever said the negotiation would be straightforward and simple.’

– Chris Grayling, October 2017

(We'd put these two side by side on two billboards)#LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

'Getting out of the EU can be quick and easy – the UK holds most of the cards in any negotiation.’

– John Redwood, July 2016 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

'There are good grounds for a new government team to offer the public a voice on what the deal looks like. And we obviously wouldn’t oppose that… I think there’s a strong democratic case for it.'

– Dominic Cummings, Vote Leave campaign director, Jan 2016 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

'If a democracy cannot change its mind, it ceases to be a democracy.’

– David Davis, 2012, discussing the EU #LedByDonkeys

We❤️DD

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019
David Davis
David Davis, in better days

'We could have two referendums. As it happens, it might make more sense to have the second referendum after the renegotiation is completed.’

– Jacob Rees-Mogg, Oct 2011 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019

'In a 52-48 referendum this would be unfinished business by a long way.'

– Nigel Farage, 16 May 2016 #LedByDonkeys

— Led By Donkeys (@ByDonkeys) January 10, 2019
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