This Tory MP was so owned it’s almost worth the price of Brexit by itself
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See these papayas? They come from Jamaica. The EU has an EPA with Jamaica. In fact, it has an EPAs with most of the Carribean. Most of the Commonwealth.
Anyway – they come in on a 0% tariff wherever they’re from. pic.twitter.com/e54YRDq86j
— Jim Cornelius🇪🇺🇬🇧 #WATON (@Jim_Cornelius) September 24, 2018
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See these passion fruit? Well, they’re on a 0% tariff from wherever they’re from, but if there was a tariff, these ones would be exempt because they’re from Colombia and we have an FTA with Colombia. pic.twitter.com/07WMltfh5U
— Jim Cornelius🇪🇺🇬🇧 #WATON (@Jim_Cornelius) September 24, 2018
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See these spuds? They’re from Israel, and they’re imported on a 0% tariff from there. pic.twitter.com/tgvH52EWS7
— Jim Cornelius🇪🇺🇬🇧 #WATON (@Jim_Cornelius) September 24, 2018
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Here’s the tariff schedule just to be sure.https://t.co/FQUmOOTM2V pic.twitter.com/JnameNCQ3f
— Jim Cornelius🇪🇺🇬🇧 #WATON (@Jim_Cornelius) September 24, 2018
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Almost everything, if not everything, behind you in the fruit & veg section of TESCO comes in on a 0% tariff because of FTAs and Preference deals, or because it’s 0% anyway, or it’s sourced from the EU. In fact, this is true of most of our food imports. pic.twitter.com/tDUO4kMcRT
— Jim Cornelius🇪🇺🇬🇧 #WATON (@Jim_Cornelius) September 24, 2018
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This is where our fruit comes from mostly the EU and countries where we have an FTA. pic.twitter.com/lEmO5m5kWW
— Jim Cornelius🇪🇺🇬🇧 #WATON (@Jim_Cornelius) September 24, 2018
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So when we leave the EU will these FTAs still apply, or do we get them via EU membership?
— David Calder (@davidcalder) September 24, 2018
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They’re EU FTAs. We have to try to re-establish them, with 69 non-EU countries, concurrently. pic.twitter.com/fZncAzwPSI
— Jim Cornelius🇪🇺🇬🇧 #WATON (@Jim_Cornelius) September 24, 2018
Perfect. Just perfect.
You might want to delete this tweet now, Daniel. Or you can leave it there for the comedy value future generations will get from it.
— Steve Analyst (@EmporersNewC) September 24, 2018
Let’s hope he decides on the latter but if not, there are plenty of people happy to help. Like this person.
Aww…that would be a pity, let’s make sure it’s not forgotten. pic.twitter.com/IZSwDjUmbI
— SafariSara 🌎🇪🇺 #FBPE (@SafariSara) September 24, 2018
Here’s what people made of it online.
I haven't seen anyone get skooled as hard as this Brexity Tory MP for a long, long time. https://t.co/mqy4dF7gU5
— Rhymer Rigby (@rhymerrigby) September 25, 2018
This is brilliant. Not the original tweet, but the replies by @Jim_Cornelius which demonstrate that in fact virtually all fruit and veg coming in from outside the EU does so at zero tariff because of Free Trade Agreements https://t.co/DfPSUHruNO
— David Henig (@DavidHenigUK) September 25, 2018
Read Jim Cornelius' replies. Tory MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham gets gently taken apart. https://t.co/4IoVpD8n9N
— Paul (@PaulOnBooks) September 24, 2018
A whole grocery full of false statements about EU trade policy by a Brexity MP, systematically demolished in the comments by @Jim_Cornelius https://t.co/w2RTxfW2vz
— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) September 24, 2018
The thread that follows this tweet is illuminating https://t.co/5ynx4rSsNJ
— Tim Walker (@ThatTimWalker) September 25, 2018
Please read the replies to this in which Daniel is taught quite how wrong he is. https://t.co/BkJbJ9mdnC
— Emma Kennedy (@EmmaKennedy) September 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/BootstrapCook/status/1044488983244345344
And a final thought.
how on earth have you been voted into the position as MP if you don’t have a clue about the basics, shameful
— brexshit ☠#FBPE (@VforVolition) September 24, 2018
We try not to say this too much but there really is only one word for it.
Owned.
