# Lightening the Brexit mood: Led by Donkeys **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 17, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightening-the-brexit-mood-led-by-donkeys/827916 "2019-01-17T10:56:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Treppenwitz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treppenwitz/32/3445_2.png) [@Treppenwitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Treppenwitz)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightening-the-brexit-mood-led-by-donkeys/827916/1 "2019-01-17T10:56:55Z")
For your entertainment: "Billboard posters featuring quotes by Theresa May and Brexiter MPs have gone up around Dover as part of a “guerrilla advertising” campaign designed to embarrass pro-Brexit politicians using their own past claims and predictions. A pro-remain group called Led By Donkeys has claimed responsibility for the posters, describing them as the latest in a “public information campaign to remind the public of the statements and promises made to us by our MPs”." > **[Billboard campaign reminds voters of MPs' Brexit promises](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/16/billboard-campaign-reminds-voters-of-mps-brexit-promises)** > > Posters repeat Gove claim UK will hold all the cards and Rees-Mogg call for second vote …_[they] included a Raab quote, for which he was ridiculed in November when he was Brexit secretary. He told an event: “I hadn’t quite understood the full extent of this, but if you look at the UK and look at how we trade in goods, we are particularly reliant on the Dover-Calais crossing_.” Check for your favourites! j ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightening-the-brexit-mood-led-by-donkeys/827916/2 "2019-01-17T14:47:10Z")
My favorite: > [@](#): > > “We don’t have money to do a national advertising campaign. We have spare time, a ladder and maybe a little smidgen of wit. The treasure trove of historic verbal incompetence by our Brexit leaders makes this a relatively easy campaign to sustain.” ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightening-the-brexit-mood-led-by-donkeys/827916/3 "2019-01-17T15:24:44Z")
And they’re absolutely right. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightening-the-brexit-mood-led-by-donkeys/827916/4 "2019-01-17T15:24:57Z")
Not poster content, but here’s a [series of tweets](https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2018/12/11/brexit-analogy-went-viral-funny-totally-nails-prompted-sorts-cheesy-puns/) comparing Brexit to a submarine made of cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lightening-the-brexit-mood-led-by-donkeys/827916/5 "2019-01-17T15:52:29Z")
“Led By Donkeys” is (by the way) the traditional way of describing the UK soldiers in WWI’s trenches “Lions Led by Donkeys” [Lions led by donkeys - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_led_by_donkeys)