I get the sense that this is more of the same Trump phenomenon we’ve seen over the last 12 months on the other side of the Atlantic. The people using the only tool in their tool box, the power tool of their collective vote, and striking back against the condescending elites and the establishment.
A sortakinda FU to the EU.
Take note Malcolm, your time’scoming on July 2
“..There were two referendums on Thursday. The first was on membership of the EU. The second was on the British establishment. Leave won both, and the world will never be the same again.
This was the day the British people defied their jailers
It’s impossible to overstate how remarkable this victory is. Twenty years ago, Euroscepticism was a backbench Tory rebellion and a political cult. It was a dispute located firmly on the Right with little appeal to Labour voters. It took Ukip to drag it into the centre of political life – given momentum by the issue of immigration – and slowly it has emerged as a lightning rod for anti-establishment activism..”