The Day Britain Left
The mood was convivial and fairly relaxed as Rhubarb TV’s
Station Manager Charlotte Hutton and I strolled on to Parliament Square on
Friday evening. Union flags and St. George crosses flapped and furled in the
icy January air and yet the revellers were seemingly insulated by the
atmosphere of hope and relief.
This was the day that Brexiteers had been expecting for over
25 years and a cold January evening punctuated by fittingly British drizzle was
not going to lower the mood. In one corner of Parliament Square the mood was
particularly excitable. The ‘Liberty Bell’ was sounding a tune lacking both
rhythm and timbre while flares were colouring the night sky in red and blue and
men and women of all ages were hiding cheap cans of lager from the police. This
wasn’t just a Brexit party; th...
