That may be so.
And it won't matter one bit.
Because failing to deliver on the positive promises that brexiteers made to ensnare voters is always going to be more important to people than the the negative concerns not being realised.
And remember that team Brexit had a few negative whoppers of their own. We could talk about Turkey's imminent membership...
Pope ... I'm doing the chain thing again so don't lose your shit again
40 years of lies, manipulation, jingoism, fraud etc
Not my work below but a friend of friends from about a year ago in GQ and this only scratches the surface
"If the alphabet was 1,000 letters long, you’d still have no trouble filling it from start to finish with the lies of Brexit. No other topic in our nation’s history has inspired so many untruths.
As it is, you’ll have to settle for 26. As we head towards God knows what on 29 March, it is timely to look back and reflect on the lies, and the liars, who got us this far. So here’s my A to Z of Brexit lies. Please feel free to suggest any additions to me on Twitter (@mk1969). I think there could be a book deal in this.
A is for Anglo-Irish relationship. “Nor is there any prospect of security checks returning to the border. The common travel area between the UK and Ireland pre-dates our EU membership and will outlast it. The unique status Irish citizens are accorded in the UK predates EU membership and will outlast it. There is no reason why the UK’s only land border should be any less open after Brexit than it is today.” Theresa Villiers, Vote Leave press release, 14 April 2016
B is for Billions. Thirty-nine of them to be precise. That's the cost of exiting the European Union. Hard Brexiteers such as Dominic Raab like to kid on that we won't be paying Brussels a penny if we leave without a deal, just the kind of gung-ho statement you'd expect from a man who only recently realised Dover was an important trading port. The chancellor of the exchequer says we will have to pay a big chunk, deal or no deal.
C is for Cameron. Perhaps fittingly, Brexit began with a lie that accidentally came true. David Cameron’s 2015 manifesto promise of a second referendum was designed to keep Tory EU haters happy. He assumed he’d be blocked by Liberal Democrat coalition partners and then he went and won a majority. Which is why C is also for Catastrophe. Cameron also promised he would stay on as PM if Leave won. He quit immediately.
D is for Daily Mail. The Mail, under past editor Paul Dacre, spread more lies about the EU than any other newspaper, but between them and the Telegraph, Sun, and Express, the creativity of journalism around our relationship with Europe has been exceptional. From excessively curved bananas to milk jugs being banned, from euro notes making you impotent to cows being forced to wear nappies and Bombay mix having to be renamed, our press has waged a decades-long campaign to ridicule the EU. But who’s looking ridiculous now?
E is for Election. “There isn’t going to be one. It isn’t going to happen. There is not going to be a general election.” So said Theresa May’s spokesman in March 2017. A month later, and with soaring 41 per cent approval ratings (three times more popular than Jeremy Corbyn at the time) she “reluctantly” told the nation that a vote was necessary to strengthen her hand in EU negotiations. She lost her majority, throwing the entire process into the abject state of chaos that is Britain today.
F is for Fox. International secretary Liam Fox sold us on the idea of a glorious global Britain, once again creating new waves of international trading and prosperity. “The free trade agreement we will have to do should be one of the easiest in human history,” he said. F is also for* F**ing Idiot.
F is also for Farage. Of the great litany of untruths and outright lies told by the self-styled “Mister Brexit”, perhaps the most heinous was his "Breaking Point" poster, a moment when his xenophobia transcended its usual dog-whistle status into outright blatant racism.
G is for Gove. “The day after we vote to leave, we hold all the cards and we can choose the path we want.” Take a bow, Michael Gove. Thirty-two months later and Britain is still hopelessly lost, no Brexit pathway in sight.
H is for Health Tourism. One of the dog-whistle scares sold to readers of the Daily Mail, Sun and Express during the runup to the Referendum was the extraordinary cost of so-called health tourism – people travelling to the UK solely to benefit from our generous health system. In the case of EU citizens, this is a total fabrication. The truth is that British citizens in the EU receive five times the value of the treatment we give to EU citizens here.
H is also for Hell. It’s going to be a crowded place if Donald Tusk is correct.
I is for Immigration. The idea that countries within the EU have no control of immigration is a lie. We do, but we choose not to exercise it. Tony Blair removed the border exit checks you see in almost every other European country in 1998. That meant we had no way of knowing who was still in the UK and who had left. Under existing rules, EU member states can send EU nationals home after three months if they haven’t found a job or cannot support themselves. We could enforce that, keeping only those actively contributing to our economy. Theresa May, as home secretary, chose not to.