CR writes: my update is that the clip and the tweet that introduced it have disappeared,. No idea why but see it here
https://twitter.com/cristo_radio/status/1223391485976072194?s=20
Salt of the earth. Telling it how it is. The voice of the people.
However you look at it, this clip captured the popular mood - in all its passionate and patriotic glory - as Britain took to the streets to celebrate shaking off the shackles of Brussels.
They came in their thousands to welcome the bright new age.
Not many thousands, one impertinent chronicler observed, say when compared to the hundreds of thousands of despicable traitors who took more than once to the streets of London in what the Daily Mail called the longest Waitrose queues in history.
But thousands more than Dame Nigel mustered for that pitiful match on London from Sunderland.
We are free at last. Free to regard North Sea and Channel fisheries as ours and nobody else's. Free to sneer at continental viticulteurs and drink sparkling English wine without flinching, to blame diesel and Remoaners when things go wrong.
And no one in their right mind, listening to the first interviewee, will ever again feel able to accuse Brexiters of being anti-foreigner.
The poor woman can barely speak a word of English herself, so how could that be true?
With a final flourish - Hop Off You Frogs, Up Yours Delors, Leave Means Leave, Jobs Aren't Everything and Erasmus Was Only Foreign Muck Anyway - Brexit is done.
Our potential, as exemplified in the clip, is about to be unleashed.
Never let it be said democracy is only for the elite.
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There is another view of the above and I present it in the interests of balance. I cannot get it to embed but will quote it almost in full, deleting only his concluding profanity, albeit asterisk laden. Tom Slater describes himself as 'Deputy editor @spikedonline. Free speech fan. One of the 17.4million'. He means the 2016 17.4m (52 per cent), not the 1975 Remain 17.4m (67 per cent)
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