… and still they remoan, five years later
On this date, five years ago, the hard work of all of us Leave campaigners bore fruit: we won the Leave vote. Many of you have sent in their recollections which we happily publish In today’s Special Issue. Many were official vote count scrutineers – I was one of them – and never were stacks of ballot papers more eagerly scrutinised, to see if a prediction could be made! Many of us were glued to their tellies, many went to bed when Nigel Farage seemed to have conceded that Remain had won – that was early into the count though.
Most of us however were up in the early hours of Friday 24th June, watching the BBC programme, hoping to hear the result we so desired. Who could ever forget the announcement by Mr Dimbleby – an announcement which showed irrefutably the bias of that ‘British’ Broadcasting Corporation:
On this fifth anniversary of a vote which has ‘torn the UK apart’, according to the unshakeable Remain~ and EU-loving German correspondent of the German paper ‘Die Welt’, what do our own MSM have to say? The print issues are about footie, about ‘hopes for travel’ and perhaps being allowed to get rid of those muzzles.
BJ’s declaration that we’re better positioned to deal with the covid fall-out because of Brexit, made the front page of the Express. The DM shoved the report of that declaration further down their home page – read it here, if you must. However, this morning RemainCentral published a rather interesting interview. They spoke to the ‘EU Ambassador’ in London, the Portuguese diplomat Joao Vale de Almeida:
“On the fifth anniversary of the Brexit vote, Joao Vale de Almeida said the prime minister’s vow to “get Brexit done” had yet to be fulfilled despite Britain’s formal exit from the bloc.In an interview with The Times he said it was time for both sides to move on. “The best way to respect Brexit is to implement Brexit,” the ambassador said. Brexit was “done, in a way, but not done, in another way”.” (link, paywalled)
Who could argue with that! However, we saw month on month, year on year, that Remain was not going to give up. During these five years we saw week after week how Brussels, how our own PM and our own Remain Mandarins tried to make our vote null and void. We saw how the Remain fraction in the House of Peacocks, in concert with the Supreme Court, tried to make us go and vote again – this time to achieve the proper, the Remain result.
It was an ongoing Betrayal of us, the people who voted Leave. Not only did the politicians and Whitehall betray us – so did the MSM. This experience has taught us, the thick and stupid peasants so despised by all those Westminster bubble dwellers, to mistrust government and MSM and to find out for ourselves what really goes on, using sites which did the research the MSM didn’t. I’ll only mention our friends at facts4eu who kept digging into the EU’s own publications, giving us irrefutable data demonstrating how Ms May’s ‘chief negotiator’ (his name escapes me …) was in cahoots with Brussels’ M Barnier.
Our Brexit was under such threat that Nigel Farage came back, with the new Brexit Party, wiping the board in the EU Parliamentary elections two years ago. I don’t need to write about what happened next – the ongoing attempts at betraying Brexit are well documented on this site. Only one person truly stood firm – no, not the ‘Brexit PM’, but Mr Frost, now Lord Frost.
He is still battling Remain, not least the communist Brussels Kommissar Mr Sefcovic. Facts4eu have compiled his latest speech here. He condemns himself out of his own mouth. Clearly, the EU hasn’t abandoned all hope that somehow they can coerce us back into the fold.
In contrast it’s nice to read the somewhat more emollient words of the EU ambassador who spoke to RemainCentral. Are we seeing some leopards changing their spots? Or is this just a pretty smokescreen behind which to hide the EU’s skulduggery? See this:
“[Mr Joao Vale de almeida] added: “[Brexit] is a living animal. It requires permanent attention and permanent investment. It requires trust, trust and trust. That should be what we are focusing on, but there’s not trust right now. I think the worst way to respect Brexit is to keep fighting battles of the past, and to keep trying to score points on disputes of the past,” he continued. “The world has changed. The world has moved on.” (link, paywalled)
So it has! One of the results of those five years is that many of us have lost trust in the politicians we’re forced to elect, thanks to lack of alternatives. One of the results is that we are no longer allowing the MSM to bamboozle us. The past 18 months of lockdowns, of the rise of the covid empire, have shown that we don’t need our hand held by the covid nanny.
Five years surely must be a longer time in politics than a week! Not so – not when the forces of Remain, of coercion, of anti-liberty are still rampant. However, we have learned, we haven’t forgotten – and surely there are now more of us than the 17 million celebrated in our favourite song – the most suitable conclusion to this commemorative article:
KBO!
(Brexit meme created by John Hart who gave us permission to publish it)
I would accept a bloodless purge with lots of victims. Somewhere along the lines of tumbrills but earning a living wage .
Thanks to everyone for their contributions and stories. I too was a foot soldier for UKIP and trudged the streets for months on end, only one of three people in my whole town, and two dropped out after one day. We had the battle bus visit us and a parking attendant tried to move it on (that didn’t work there was nothing wrong with where it was) and it was all worth it to see the remainers faces following the vote. I just hope we eventually get BREXIT.
Great Viv bleddy great. Thanks for posting the original and update vid, xx
I have enjoyed reading all the different experiences so much. My contribution to the project was minor in comparison to others. I was out on my own pushing leaflets through doors in the run up to the referendum because my husband was very poorly and could not come with me (we had previously canvassed and leafleted together on many occasions for UKIP) . I had a very large poster up in my porch window and a poster on a pole in my front garden. During the night after the vote I kept checking on my I Pad. At one time I thought we would lose but the Sunderland result was splendid and the grudging acknowledgement of the ‘Leave Win’ by the BBC was a joy to behold!!! I guess they could see all that EU funding disappearing before their eyes. I broke the good news to hubby when he woke. Later we cracked open the champers that I had bought in hopes of a win (small glass for him though I am afraid but much enjoyed!).
On the subsequent four long years of enduring ‘Remainer’ sour grapes and obstruction I will not dwell. I still do not believe that we are fully ‘out’ because the apology for a government that still holds sway in its pro-EU stance will not rest until they have restored the previous status quo. Freedom of Nationhood will not return until a National, Patriot government is installed to restore Britain’s fortunes.
One commenter uses the correct words for the eu
Pure poison, pure poison
So many movies will be made of the Brexit saga it has everything – Actors will love the larger than life characters on both sides and directors will love the cliff hangers and ironic reversals of fortune and that the real action is after the actual Vote!
A big thank you to Viv and Debbie for chronicling the subsequent events every single day for 5 years. A magnificent achievement, to be read by future generations who I hope will learn from it , once all this insanity is over. And I do believe we will win in the end even though it looks blacker than black at present. The case for the prosecution of the miscreants who betrayed Brexit is almost complete.
(How is Debbie? )