Our contributor Sonya Porter send us this note:
WE WON!
To quote Winston Churchill after the British troops had won their first great battle of the Second World War at Al Alamein:
“This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.”
Spot on Sonya. This is indeed a victory of pivotal proportions. However, your timely reminder expressed through Churchill’s timeless words is as relevant now as back then.
This is only the beginning and I’m with Shakespeare on this one.
Macbeth: If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly.
Elsewhere I read of concern being expressed at Cameron’s suggestion that he should hang on to power until October and rightly so.
He speaks of stability, of keeping the banks happy. Criticism in response suggesting that instead he is merely placating the Conservative party is pure Goebbels.
They are defining both sides of the argument to achieve their ends hoping to divert us into the fruitless fog of party politics.
NO! We cannot allow this missing of the point!
Britain needs to begin the exit process IMMEDIATELY.
Either through article 50 or one of the other legal avenues open to us.
We need to stem the flow of our money to Brussels.
We need to regain control of our territorial waters and get back our fish. ASAP. I believe it is vital to get our fishing industry on track to provide jobs and income to ordinary people. I’m no expert on fishing but if you follow the link you can see what those who are think.
http://www.politico.eu/article/eu-referendum-brexit-little-love-for-europe-among-scotlands-fishermen/
Talking of fish I can think of one sturgeon in particular that might need staving off!
Of course the referendum result has of itself no legal power and in theory could be ignored completely.
One commentator suggested UKIP has now lost its raison d’être.
NO! The fun has just begun.
Well done everyone, but remember that we still have much to do. My previous article here is relevant:
“ukipdaily.com/looking-ahead/comment-page-1/#comment-11135”
Well done to all UKIP people. Had it not been for your years of fighting against all odds, we would never have had a referendum.
Congratulations!! So happy for you guys today!
Thought about you all night Vivian 🙂
Thanks! This has been a very Happy Day for us – victory makes one forget all the hard work that went into it.
Walking on air doing the school run this morning,knowing that my ten year old son will grow up in the sort of country we can be proud of. To all the fantastic people who worked so tirelessly to make this happen,i say thank you from the bottom of my heart from my family and I in Leeds West Yorkshire.
WHOOOOOO-HOOOO!!!!!! Oh, the consternation, the dismay, Oh, the shocked and dumbfounded ‘experts’, commentators, pundits, pollsters, BBC bigots, Oh, the humanity as they went down in flames!!
Dimblebore still couldn’t resist one more misrepresentation of the facts: “So the people have overturned the decision they made in 1973 to go into the EU”. Idiot man: the people made no such decision in 1973 and there was no EU in 1973.
Horrible Traitor Heath must be spinning in his grave, and rightly so: vengeance at last!
So, Sturgeon is calling for another referendum already! You need to nip that one in the bud.
To be fair flyer she hasn,t got a great record in referendums lol. She,s currently running 0 for 2.
Much noise by Sturgeon – who knows full well that without the English contributions to the Scottish economy, which would stop immediately at a Scotxit, and with falling oil prices and dwindling reserves, Scotland would become the poor house of Europe. And she must know that there’s no such thing as immediate entry into the EU – that takes years, especially now that Scotland, as part of the UK, is OUT.
It’s not gonna happen, and watching “Braveheart” every evening won’t change it.
Sturgeon needs to be told, forcefully, that her party has no mandate in Scotland for any kind of referendum re-run, since at the last Scottish “parliamentary” elections a mere six weeks ago, the SNP lost six seats and its overall majority in the Scottish “parliament”.
W00T!! Congrats from your many friends across the pond
on a job well done. Even your famous bookies missed it. Good on ya!
The bookies ‘missed’ it because, as I’ve now learned, they use the amount of money wagered to skew the odds. Allegedly, a few very big bettors (up to £25,000) on Remain thus skewed the odds, because the far more numerous Leave bettors only placed small to very small sums.
I didn’t know that – but there it is … can we say ‘serves them right’?
So why does Cameron want to wait months,for the next Prime Minister, before invoking article 50?
Why not just invoke article 50?
I suspect subterfuge and gerrymandering already!
Well, the Big Wigs in the Tory Party haven’t decided yet who is to replace him, and I suspect the Bankers have told him to keep things steady because —-> money!
The 17 million plus of us will however not relent and will hold their feet to the fire.
Good on ya!
But, always, remember more of WSC’s words:
Magnanimous in victory, gracious in defeat
To be sure!
One other thought: we the British people yesterday beat Napoleon’s great-grandchildren in Brussels yet again, just like 201 years ago. And just like then, we had “Wellington Weather”: thunderstorms and torrential rain …
It worked for the Great Duke, it worked for us …! Now the infamous Code Napoleon won’t be imposed on us.
Was told by a retired GP last Tuesday when I was discussing Corpus Juris with him that Habeas Corpus is in force “all over the continent”
Was he having me on?
He was! Or he was speaking through his hat …
We had habeus corpus for centuries while the French were imprisoning people indefinitely in the Bastille on ‘lettres de cachet’ – authorisation from a French noble or their king to ‘hide’ dissidents or simply people who had annoyed/defied someone in authority. See “A Tale of Two Cities” and “The Count of Monte Cristo” for literary examples, see history books for facts. They never adopted habeus corpus on the Continent because Napoleon imposed his code of law on conquered nations.
Absolutely right, Brian.
Well done Viv.
Thanks for all your hard work.
This is not only a well deserved victory, it is the ‘small pebble that will start an avalanche across Europe’.
Regards Bernard.
Thanks – but it’s the footsoldiers, the ordinary people up and down the country who worked themselves into the ground who won it. And of course That Man, Nigel Farage!
Yes of course.
‘When asked when he was going to have his first pint of the day, a sheepish Mr Farage admitted “he had already had a couple”.’
To negotiate our exit, we do not want a career politician. We need someone whose loyalty to the UK is beyond doubt, who knows the EU backwards and has a track record of standing up to Barroso, Juncker et al. Now let me think…
Congratulations Viv and everybody else there at UKIP. Good job!
I am a very happy person today:-)
I suggest you all spend the rest of the day in the pub.
I can’t stop grinning – and enjoying the glum faces of the BEEB presenters!
Now here’s a lesson from History: yesterday and the night before, there were thunderstorms and heavy rain across England: “Wellington Weather”, as always before his big battles, the last one being Waterloo.
Always trust the Great Duke!
🙂
Yes, Sky and BBC are not taking this gracefully.
This morning Dimbers interrogating Hoey suggested to her that she and 15 or so other Labour Leave MPs were turncoats. Well, he’d had a long miserable night.
Meanwhile Murnaghan crowed quite sharply at Grayling that the pound was falling as Remain had said, but he and the Leavers had called it Project Fear, so he was wrong wasn’t he? Same line later to one of the Eagles: “You on Remain said there would be a crash and you’ve been vindicated, haven’t you?” Er, leading the witness, M’Lud.
And later to one of his colleagues, after Cameron’s resignation, he opined that: “The PM’s error was to call a referendum in the first place.” Democracy is an error? That’s a Clarke/Heseltine/Patten and EU line.
And my favourite, was Victoria Derbyshire, with a hand-picked bunch, all looking glum, saying: “We’’ll be asking voters what they think. There really is a sombre mood here now.” Then, to the first one, she began: “You voted Remain didn’t you?” So the usual BBC balanced vox pop, then. Sombre? Someone needs to tell her there is a whole world outside the BBC if only she go and look.
Hear hear, Phil, there is such a media-stoked reaction of hysteria that I can hardly believe my ears.