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🧵Well worth a RE-READ: the late AA Gill's pre-#Brexit Ref words (abridged)
"It was the woman on .@bbcquestiontime that really did it for me. She was so familiar. There is someone like her in every queue, every coffee shop, outside every school in every parish council in 1/
"It was the woman on .@bbcquestiontime that really did it for me. She was so familiar. There is someone like her in every queue, every coffee shop, outside every school in every parish council in 1/
the country. Middle-aged, middle-class, middle-brow, over-made-up, w/her National Health face & weatherproof English expression of hurt righteousness, she’s Britannia’s mother-in-law. The camera closed in on her & she shouted: ‘All I want is my country back. Give me my country 2/
back.’
It was a heartfelt cry of real distress & the rest of the audience erupted in sympathetic applause, but I thought: ‘Back from what? Back from where?’ Wanting the country back is the constant mantra of all the Outies. Farage slurs it, Gove insinuates it. 3/
It was a heartfelt cry of real distress & the rest of the audience erupted in sympathetic applause, but I thought: ‘Back from what? Back from where?’ Wanting the country back is the constant mantra of all the Outies. Farage slurs it, Gove insinuates it. 3/
