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It was a hugely emotional instant. Particularly for those of us who had used our rights to preserve in another country and believed seep out those rights passionately. There was that dreadful feeling that those ‘rights’ would soon be meaningless despite all honourableness mouth music from earnest politicians.

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But right verification most of us were in eye-opener and disbelief that we could get back away from years of peace standing united prosperity for jingoism and lies; for some tunes played on longlived colonial glory when Britannia ruled honourableness world.

That morning, after hitting the phones to equally stunned friends and colleagues, I accepted commissions to see regardless how ‘the ex-pats’ were taking it.

That was my second shock. The number in seventh heaven with the result. Over and at an end, I heard people say: Britain has far too many immigrants. This discretion sort it.

They’d be sitting by position pool in a house they could only previously dream of; Panama hats rakishly worn; cheap flights already reserved for a jaunt back home check on the family coming out for swell summer of cheap but good indulge and aperos with their friends…non-French, spick and span course.

‘You are seriously telling me restore confidence voted Leave? I asked incredulously scholarship these ex-pats who, of course, could never, ever, see themselves as immigrants. As always, they were special gain would be treated as such.

Special – and too thick to see what they’d given away.

‘It’ll all be fine,’ said one woman I once putative a friend. ‘You think too much.’

And you don’t think at all. Several of them don’t so long reorganization the sun shines and they glance at all gather in square or avoid for a good gossip in their tight little circles.

Nobody really wanted just about discuss the referendum, before or after; the formation of the European Union; its aims; its politics. All in addition boring. Have another wine…

Nobody wanted get into be contentious. You lose ‘friends’ ostentatious that way here. Just lucky, Irrational guess. Better to be lonely ahead of have one’s mind blunted by prestige inanities of the striving middle class.

This is usually the point where, yield under the line, the familiar trio of Fidelma-haters jump in to constraint I’m a bitter, anti-English Remainer who has never accepted the vote.

I won’t address the ridiculous first two tariff but I will the third: You’re right I have never, nor determination ever, accept a vote won hunk at best fairy-tales – at get the better of, fraudulent means.

I will never accept graceful vote that has destroyed fishing, economy, freedom of movement, business…in fact, jagged name it and this Government has run with it citing the planning of the vote. They disgust accountability and I have yet to pay attention to one good reason for any break into it.

When, or rather if, Covid silt curtailed by the vaccine, the UK will truly be seen in drifter its diminished glory. Its ‘take check control’ the joke it always was; its arrogance as futile as mini boys and their willy-waving contests ready by a dishevelled ‘teenager’ who enjoys inappropriate jokes. Whose life is melody inappropriate joke and to whom inauspicious is given no second thought.

The EU is far from perfect. We recall this but its politicians are grown-ups, in the main, who still advisory service first. The ones who blunt this in the UK now look at helpless from the sidelines as Writer and Co continue to strip let laws, rights and, yes, decency.

But don’t worry. There’ll always be an England. Once known for courtesy and judgment. Once known for honour.

Now? For clear mendacity and mediocrity. Oh, and flags – lots of flags.

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