Nigel Farage tweeted that “Britain is broken” – and Twitter had a pretty much unanimous reaction.
The Office for Budget Responsibility also claimed earlier this year that Brexit will shrink the UK economy by around £100 billion between 2016 and 2031.
YouGov polls have revealed that the number of voters who now think that leaving the EU was a bad idea has grown to its largest number yet, reaching over 50%.
For many, Brexit is synonymous with Farage himself.
Long before the EU referendum vote, Farage was working as a UKIP MEP but voiced eurosceptic concerns all the while.
Once the UK narrowly voted to leave, he set up a new political party (the Brexit Party) to pressure the government into a harder deal with the EU.
Farage has also argued in favour of a British independence day to honour crashing out of the EU, and is known for touring parts of the country in a Brexit bus back in 2019.
So, when he tweeted that “Britain is broken”, Twitter thought ti was pretty rich in irony – and the claws came out.
