This is my 3000th tweet. I thought I'd mark that with some inane sparkly GIF, but since most of my Twitter use has been in expressing my incredulity, sadness and anger at the folly that is brexit, I felt I should do something a little more meaningful... The very first time I took part in any democratic process was in the 1975 referendum on staying or leaving the EEC, I was an Engineering apprentice politically naive and I didn't buy a newspaper, though I sometimes scanned discarded copies of the Sun that others left lying about.