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A poster mocking the decision by inventor and Brexit supporter James Dyson to move his firm's head office out of the UK has gone up on a giant billboard in Newcastle.

The poster highlights a statement by the Leave.eu campaign which cited Dyson as an example of business supporting a post-Brexit British economy.

The statement, framed as a Twitter post in March 2017, reads: 'They said business would flee if we voted Leave, but instead we're seeing great British innovators like Dyson investing in the UK's future!'

In a follow-up post there is a BBC News tweet from January 2019 stating that Dyson had announced it is moving it's UK head office to Singapore.

The poster is the latest in a series of bills looking at the public statements made by Brexit backers. Others have appeared in London, Leeds, Birmingham and Rochdale.

(Image: Newcastle Chronicle)

It was put up by campaigners who use the hashtag #LedByDonkeys pointing to a Twitter account, reports Chronicle Live .

On their page, they claim to be "taking the historic Brexit pronouncements of our political leaders, turning them into tweets and slapping them up on massive billboards across the nation."

The group have also set up a Crowdfunder page , which at the time of writing has raised £188,679.

On this page, they said: "When we started this we were four friends who wanted to highlight the hypocrisy of our politicians on Brexit.

"Armed with ladders, roller brushes and a treasure trove of damning statements by our leaders, we slapped up their biggest lies onto posters around the country.

(Image: Newcastle Chronicle)

"We’re proposing to turn this guerrilla operation into one of the biggest people-funded billboard protests this country has ever seen.

"If we raise £10,000 we can put up 10 of these billboards, and if we raise over that we can plaster them all over the country."

"We all have family, friends and loved ones who voted Leave, and many of them believed the words of these politicians," they said.

"By putting up their quotes as billboards we can all compare the promises made with reality."