This Brexiteer Tory MP got his history wrong and the takedowns were brutal
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https://twitter.com/timothy_stanley/status/1091772509706432513
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It’s *always* worth fact-checking my MP’s tweets
The largest recipient of Marshall Plan money was the United Kingdom (receiving about 26% of the total)
West Germany received 11%https://t.co/bV7WHG8lmk pic.twitter.com/uQTTHhbMed
— Huw Peach #FBPE #Pro-EU #PeoplesVote (@HuwpHuw) 2 February 2019
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This is my Dad you utter sap. He was RAF aircrew in WW2. He knew that after the war we needed to build a Europe strong and united. He campaigned in the 1975 referendum for remain. He knew that loving your country is good but nationalism and xenophobia is always wrong. pic.twitter.com/FWCcd7Qi4G
— David🔶#finalsay🔶Bingham 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 (@bingaddick) 3 February 2019
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Four things to note :
A) Britain got the largest share of the Marshall Plan
B) WWII ended almost 75 years ago
C) The EU is a club from which UK has taken money as well as contributed money
C) incredibly the man who doesn’t know these things is a Westminster MP https://t.co/u6GpWxAbAn
— Michael Russell (@Feorlean) February 2, 2019
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We were the largest recipient of Marshall Plain aid by a mile. 30s google would tell you that. You are one part lazy, one part ignorant, one part fraudulent and one part dishonest.
— NeilWinN10 (@DustOnSpaceRock) 2 February 2019
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Maybe when you tweeted this you were just a pig-ignorant dickhead who didn’t know his facts. You’ve now been corrected hundreds of times by everyone from historians to people who did GCSE history.
Idiots are still retweeting you in good faith. Delete it, you shameless liar.
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) 3 February 2019
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You are either stupid or a liar; actually you're both. Britain received twice as much as Germany. You can look these things up you know.
How is your traitorous move to get a foreign country to interfere with our democracy going? https://t.co/c1k48v6Den— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) February 2, 2019
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1. Germany paid its war reparations.
2. We got more out of the EU than we ever paid in.
3. Don’t blame the EU for your own refusal to accept reality.— Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 #FBPE (@BrexitBin) 3 February 2019
Others just thought it was a bit lame to bring up the war.
Utterly ridiculous for anyone to bring up a war from over 70 years ago when discussing today’s situation, let alone a current member of Parliament. Pathetic excuse of a politician, you should be ashamed.
— Tom McGuane (@tom_mcguane) 2 February 2019
You need to get out more
— Daniel Kawczynski (@DKShrewsbury) 2 February 2019
You need to be voted out more
— Al Pollock (@alpwriting) 2 February 2019
He was later given the chance to apologise on Talk Radio, and this happened.
"Would you like to apologise for misleading your Twitter followers?"@AlexisConran gave @DKShrewsbury the chance to clarify his tweet saying there was 'no Marshall Plan for us.'
He decided to hang up. pic.twitter.com/A8Sb9fDq1Y
— Talk (@TalkTV) February 3, 2019
And if the name of the MP sounds familiar, you’d be right. He’s also the guy who was totally owned after he tweeted this.
Keep up the good work sir!