Our favourite 7 responses to the Brexiteer who made this argument against a second EU vote

Here’s Tim Montgomerie – Brexit champion, founder of ConservativeHome and former chief of staff to Iain Duncan Smith – on why there’s no turning back on Brexit.

Me for The Mail on Sunday: Both Leave nor Remain – all of us – would lose from the fallout of a second referendum https://t.co/NSupXo1bQj pic.twitter.com/nrl6XhR9zH

— Tim Montgomerie (@montie) October 21, 2018

And here are our favourite 7 responses to his Mail on Sunday column.

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Translation: Turns out we spent our entire careers talking undiluted bollocks about pretty much everything, especially Brexit. But we can’t back out now because then we’d have to admit it. https://t.co/cluHvSBZsY

— James O'Brien (@mrjamesob) October 21, 2018

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Congratulations! The stupidest argument yet against a 2nd referendum, "It would be embarrassing”.
Yes, this country should be a 19th century loveless marriage, repenting our haste, but still too proud to divorce.
Oh, and get over the Empire thing lads, it was aaaages ago. https://t.co/uhr5P7FGk4

— Dara Ó Briain (@daraobriain) October 21, 2018

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Brexiter argument today seems to be: Yeah, we know we fucked up, but it's too late now. https://t.co/QQKlVxsIm6

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) October 21, 2018

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The expression, 'pride before a fall' comes to mind, Tim.

National humiliation would be blown away by the respect that would be shown to a country which put the interests of its people above the pride of its politicians. https://t.co/wqmziITzYR

— Jessica Simor KC (@JMPSimor) October 21, 2018

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And you can’t see any inherent (and completely mad) contradiction in saying how important “self governing” is in the sentence next to boasting that we “ran” the world’s largest empire? https://t.co/ajAWiTrVPG

— richard bacon (@richardpbacon) October 21, 2018

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I once said I suspected the final form of Brexit would be that most English of things, going through with disaster out of fist-chewing embarrassment at the objectively-better alternatives.

And here we are. https://t.co/FaGndbpadz

— Tim O'Connor (@timoconnorbl) October 21, 2018

Yep, that pretty much covers it we reckon.