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Stab-in-the-back: the nasty old myth that Brexiters are exploiting to explain away the disaster
25/06/2022
Lord Frost and others are reinventing a tactic used by the beaten German generals in 1918.
This week, the practical realities of what Brexit is going to mean came into central focus for perhaps the first time, with a new government information campaign.
Hate crime spiked during parliamentary debates around what Boris Johnson labelled a "surrender bill" aiming to prevent a no-deal Brexit.
"It's Parliament's fault, it's the opposition's fault, it's the Benn Act, it's Germany, it's Ireland"
08/10/2019
Labour's Keir Starmer says No 10 briefing shows PM "never takes responsibility for his own actions", accusing him of a "reckless blame game" with the EU.
Tommy Robinson among those celebrating prime minister's comments to 'traitor MPs' amid widespread condemnation.
Paula Sherriff accused the PM of fuelling threats with the language of "betrayal" in an emotional plea. But in shocking scenes, Mr Johnson shrugged: "I've never heard such humbug in all my life".
Assuming a new pose as defender of the people, Liddle rages against liberal remainers and the ‘establishment’ – and is as untroubled by facts as by logic.
Enter the disturbing special exhibition that has recently opened in Berlin’s German Historical Museum and you are immediately confronted with a series of bleak statements: “Liberal democracy cannot be taken for granted any longer … Authoritarian parties are even gaining strength in countries with a long democratic tradition ..."
His rhetoric was always that the elite would thwart the will of the people, enabling a new movement to rise up amid the anger. ... Brexit was designed by its most passionate supporters to fail: its purpose was to be betrayed, to enable a new movement to rise up, animated by fury and fear.
The Brexiters blame Remainers. They blame the civil service. They blame the EU27. They blame so-called "elites".
28/03/2019
They blame everyone but themselves: the very people who cooked up Brexit, sold it as all things to all people, and now cry betrayal when reality intervenes.
Nigel Farage likens Brexit deal to Treaty of Versailles that drove Hitler’s rise to power
27/03/2019
Former Ukip leader makes outlandish claims of 'reparations' and 'annexations'.