Remoaner ex-MP Anna Soubry fact checked as she uses D-Day event to attack Brexit

Remoaner-in-chief Anna Soubry was ridiculed today as she desperately attempted to use the day’s D-Day events to attack Brexit.

Ms Soubry, an ex-MP who led the anti-Brexit Change UK party in 2019 before losing her seat, was left humiliated by social media users who all pointed out the one glaring error with her desperate attack.

The retired politician shared a video of British paratroopers getting their passports checked after landing in France.

She added: “Ah those #Brexit benefits.”

However users quickly piled in to point out that even before Britain left the EU, those travelling to France had to have their passports checked, and Brexit made no difference to this bureaucratic process.

Twitter/X’s new community notes feature is currently on the verge of formally fact checking Ms Soubry, with the suggesting context of: “Even before Brexit, the United Kingdom was not part of the Schengen Area and so its citizens were still subject to passport checks when entering Schengen countries such as France.”

The top reply, which currently has over 650 likes, blasts the former MP: “I'd like to think that you were better than this Anna - but sadly that isn't true is it.

“You know damn well that the UK was never in the Schengen zone, and so UK arrivals to France have *always* had to have their passports checked. Always.

“Are you really this pathetic?”

Meanwhile Karen Cattell Deves, who proclaims to be a former soldier and Orderly Room Clerk, explains: “It was part of my job to issue NATO Travel orders. These are issued when on Military Operations.

“These paratroopers were NOT on military duties and therefore are subject to Schengen rules.

"Never let facts get in the way of a story.”

Alan Fraser mocked: “Anna, as a Barrister and former Law Maker advocating for EU membership surely you were aware that any Brit travelling to EU had to produce a passport.

“It may be that MPs have some minion to carry and do it on their behalf, but even you would have been checked at that border.”

Arron Banks, the former top Ukip player who donated huge amounts to the pro-Brexit campaign, simply commented: “Sad loser.”

As part of the day’s 80th-anniversary celebrations, hundreds of soldiers parachuted into the same rural drop zone that was used on the historic D-Day fightback against the Nazis.

Brigadier Mark Berry, the commander of 16 Air Assault Brigade, told The Sun: “It is something we haven’t experienced before.

“But given the royal welcome we have had from every other feature, it seems like a very small price to pay for coming to France.”