I won’t be going to the celebration on January 31st
– I just don’t do that sort of thing - and I really couldn’t care either way
about Big Ben or fireworks; they can do their damnedest to dampen spirits, but
then they are missing the entire point. Spirit isn’t encapsulated in pyrotechnics
and bongs. To the half of the country (actually considerably fewer) who
steadfastly refuse to countenance marking the latest Brexit Day, I have to ask:
Why do you care? It has nothing to do with you. Stay at home, drown your
sorrows, but don't imagine for one second that your petulant cause is noble.
It is continuity remain, as if there was still a cause to
fight for. They’re all out there: Yasmin Alibhai Brown’s sour-face performances
on – well every fucking chat show in the land; Femi, who imagines he still has
relevance; that idiot Lib Dem peer who sees 1930s Germany in his stupid fat
head and all the minions who will attempt to overthrow any celebration by demonstrating
in the hope they can provoke violence from the leavers in order to prove their
thesis. What is wrong with you all?
They are afraid, of course, that the nasty, small-minded,
Union Flag waving xenophobes will be out there to gloat. Well, why not let them
gloat for one night? It’s not like you haven’t spent the best part of four
years daily hurling invective, decrying motives and generally behaving like pantomime
villains pretending to be princesses. You are baffled by why we want to leave,
we get that. Whenever we have explained what sovereignty means to us you have
refused to accept its value. We know you are afraid, when we are optimistic; we
know you are filled with hatred, while we just want to help you come to terms.
But for pity’s sake, just give us one day.
But this is a part of a wider battle. It wages daily
across the airwaves, on the internet, in the grand houses of western government
and quite keenly in the mosques and madrassas of the developing world; death to
the west. Don’t upset the ethnics, we are told. Don’t mention Christmas in case
it upsets muslims. And don’t you dare use your white privilege (which only
people of colour and the enlightened can see, of course) to mount any kind of
platform. Anything ‘not British’ is to be celebrated and every ethnic
festival receives a warm and heartfelt tweet from Jeremy Corbyn, whose life work has
been to bring down the country and the system which gave him everything.
Who needs fireworks?
The socialist rallying cry used to be “Workers of the
world unite – you have nothing to lose but your chains!” But you simply swapped
one set of chains for several others. Over the last few decades an ideological
opposition to every freedom gained by the advancement of the west has been
denigrated as somehow being at the expense of the rest. Well it just isn’t
true. So if you wish, get out there and celebrate this latest new freedom;
freedom from remote, foreign government; independence. Resist, overcome, enjoy and sound a
new battle cry: “Brexiteers of the world unite - you have nothing to lose but
your shame!”
