Liz Truss,Amber Rudd and Stephen Crabb joined the chancellor to explain why every household in Britain would be screwed“In a li’l while...” opened George Osborne chattily. The threat of Brexit was now so great that the word runt had already been robbed of two Ts and an E; come June there could be nothing left of it. Alongside the chancellor stood cabinet ministers Liz Truss, Amber Rudd and Stephen Crabb hanging on to their lecterns for dear life, or trying to leer as whether they knew why George had insisted they join him at a research centre for the production of lightweight materials on the external of Bristol on a Monday morning. The clue was in the flimsy materials,but their faces remained blank. One potato, two potato, or three potato …In a li’l while we would all be doomed. Britain was on the verge of Armageddon. George didn’t want to frighten the country,he wanted to terrify it. whether we voted to leave the EU a terrible pestilence would be visited upon us. Britain would be cast into an economic wilderness so bleak that few – whether any – would survive. This was Project Fact Plus. For the final couple of hours or so, the finest minds in the Treasury had been doing their homework and he, and George,had come to present their findings.
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Source: theguardian.com