Yorkshire celebrations as Brexit bash under way
The party is well and truly under way in Morley, West Yorkshire where Brexiteers are celebrating at an event hosted by Leave MP Andrea Jenkyns.
In the Morley and Outwood constituency, 60% of people voted to leave the EU in the referendum.
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Brenda, from London, says she is elated.
”I’ve been waiting 40 years for this,” she says.
”It’s one of the best days of my life.”
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Jessie has come down from Norfolk on the megabus to be at the Parliament Square rally today.
She says she used to support the EU and even worked on campaigns to help MEPs get elected.
But the more she saw of the EU, the more disillusioned she felt, referring to its ”expansionist nature“.
“It’s like the laws of physics - expand, expand, eventually you will fall in on yourself."
But the real clincher she says was reading about children living in one parent families in Eastern Europe because the other had moved to richer European countries to find work.
"I realised I could be eating food picked by one of those parents," she says.
"No-one should benefit off the backs of the poor.“
She says she hopes remainers and Brexiteers will come together now and regrets the divisiveness of the last few years. ”I’ve been called a bigot and a gammon hostess,“ she says. ”But if you look around here we’re just normal people."
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Flying the flag for Brexit
There's a lot of Union Jacks flying tonight across the country but this might win the prize for being the largest.
It's on display at the big rally in Parliament Square.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-51324431
The party is well and truly under way in Morley, West Yorkshire where Brexiteers are celebrating at an event hosted by Leave MP Andrea Jenkyns.
In the Morley and Outwood constituency, 60% of people voted to leave the EU in the referendum.
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Brenda, from London, says she is elated.
”I’ve been waiting 40 years for this,” she says.
”It’s one of the best days of my life.”
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Jessie has come down from Norfolk on the megabus to be at the Parliament Square rally today.
She says she used to support the EU and even worked on campaigns to help MEPs get elected.
But the more she saw of the EU, the more disillusioned she felt, referring to its ”expansionist nature“.
“It’s like the laws of physics - expand, expand, eventually you will fall in on yourself."
But the real clincher she says was reading about children living in one parent families in Eastern Europe because the other had moved to richer European countries to find work.
"I realised I could be eating food picked by one of those parents," she says.
"No-one should benefit off the backs of the poor.“
She says she hopes remainers and Brexiteers will come together now and regrets the divisiveness of the last few years. ”I’ve been called a bigot and a gammon hostess,“ she says. ”But if you look around here we’re just normal people."
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Flying the flag for Brexit
There's a lot of Union Jacks flying tonight across the country but this might win the prize for being the largest.
It's on display at the big rally in Parliament Square.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-51324431
