Robert Webb And Julia Hartley-Brewer Had A Spectacular Brexit Results Spat

The claws are out.

Peep Show comedian Robert Webb and journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer have become embroiled in a spat over the reaction of those who voted to remain in the European Union to those who voted to leave.

Presenter and writer Hartley-Brewer said on Sunday night that she had received tweets from irate remain supporters.

Lots of angry Remainers tweeting me today appear to think a vote to Leave automatically put the Vote Leave team into No10. It didn't.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer (@JuliaHB1) June 26, 2016

But Webb gave her complaint short shrift...

You inspired the defiant, the frivolous, the ignored, the angry and the insecure. They expected a plan. From you. https://t.co/PnSIW8VaN4

— Robert Webb (@arobertwebb) June 26, 2016

And things quickly went on a wild ride from there.

Webb admitted that he “shouldn’t pick on a journalist” but quizzed Hartley-Brewer on why she was “so defensive” over the issue.

She went on to accuse him of pretending his position was “moral”.

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Webb also went on to retweet:

Arsonist feels let down by fire brigade https://t.co/xYDztTQsLu

— (((Burnett Tabrum))) (@BTabrum) June 26, 2016

Ahead of the referendum, Hartley-Brewer said that she received abuse from students on Twitter after her arguments against giving 16-year-olds a vote featured in an exam.

Extracts from Julia Hartley-Brewer’s opinion piece saying those aged 16 and 17 should not be able to vote in the upcoming EU referendum were included in May's Scottish Higher English paper.

Hartley-Brewer wrote in the Daily Telegraph: “If my eight year-old can wait to vote, a couple more years isn’t going to do our 16 year-olds any harm.”

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