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Sing Hallelujah! The wicked witch is dead. The anti-democratic super-state, into which we were taken in 1973 (fittingly, without a vote being cast) thanks to Labour rebels providing Tory PM Ted Heath with his majority, is no more.
At least for us. Though I doubt we will be the last to leave the failing fading cluster.
Leading Labour rebel Roy Jenkins, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, former chancellor, former home secretary, later president of the European Commission, was dumped on his ample backside out of Parliament in 1987 by me. It was my greatest victory.
Without Jenkins and his 80 fellow apostates Britain would never have joined the cursed cluster, because the Conservatives - then, as now - contained enough of the patriotic bourgeoisie to stop the globalist prime minister and yachtsman Heath. Our membership of the Common Market, thus born in treachery, sailed ever deeper into public rejection.
Comment: How the UK's newspapers
reported on the day:
Farage - who
curiously stepped aside from challenging BoJo in the General Election just as there were signs he could win - hailed it, but with a warning for BoJo:
Some in London
celebrated, while some in Scotland lamented:
At one point a symbolic 'funeral' wreath with a candle in the center was placed in a pond outside the parliament building, overlooked by a blue EU flag that continued to fly at its entrance.
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon shared in the mood of many of her compatriots, who overwhelmingly rejected Brexit, voting to stay in the EU in the 2016 referendum. Sturgeon, who called Brexit "an affront to democracy," thanked the EU for its support, posting a photo of the EU Commission building sporting an X-shaped message: "Europe loves Scotland."
In front of Germany's iconic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, for instance, bagpipers played Ode to Joy to mourn the split, a version of which remains the EU's official anthem to this day.
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