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I too welcome the trigger. We must move foward, not backwards. Upwards, not forward. And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.

The NHS has been denied access to British-grown bananas for too long.

Madison | 21.03.17 - 4:54 a.m. | #

I read somewhere that Mrs. May should have waited until April 1st to make such a foolish move.

From June 15th mobile telephone call roaming chargers should end within the EU and calls will all be charged local rate. Well the UK will get that for 2 years anyway.

John | 21.03.17 - 7:24 a.m. | #

And the sooner we are out of the EU the better. Then our National Health Service will be £350m richer each week as they promised during the "No" campaign.

Pedantic of Purley | 21.03.17 - 7:25 a.m. | #

Yes, now we have our country back everything is so much better already even the weather is lovely.

(Assume this is an experiment to see which section gets the most comments?)

ganching | Homepage | 21.03.17 - 7:57 a.m. | #

Its never good to annoy more than half your readership, even if you are trolling

John B | 21.03.17 - 7:59 a.m. | #

John B.

How do you come to the conclusion that this post annoys 'more than half' of dg's readership? Even if a poll were run alongside it the result would be inconclusive as it would represent a self selected sample.

Lorenzo | 21.03.17 - 8:05 a.m. | #

Exactly. We can take back control, by giving the government the powers to implement all of the changes they think Brexit requires, without any of the annoying delays caused by parliamentary oversight. We are such good customers of the EU that they are bound to give us preferential trading terms, so we can keep selling our goods and services to the 450 million people in the other 27 member states, because they desparately need access to the market of 60 million people here. They all love us, and none of the other countries will stand in the way of a mutually beneficial deal. And what is so bad about tariffs and regulatory barriers anyway? Do you know how much cheese we import, when we have lots of perfectly good cheeses here anyway? And the natives in the colonies love us too. God save the Queen.

Andrew | 21.03.17 - 8:11 a.m. | #

I'm not even sure if there's a word for what this succession of posts is, but it's brilliant. It surprises me that so many people - even apparent regular readers - take everything that DG writes, whether parody advert, parody populism, or parody idiocy, literally.

And why would he worry about alienating 'half his readership'? It's not as if we're paying. The whole point of a blog is to write what you like, and put it out there for other people to take or leave as they choose.

Sarah | Homepage | 21.03.17 - 8:23 a.m. | #

Not necessarily in this thread though...

Sarah | 21.03.17 - 8:24 a.m. | #

I think DG in a particularly mischievous mood this morning! Is this a ploy to break a record in the number of comments?

Martin | 21.03.17 - 8:44 a.m. | #

I think DG was thinking in terms of getting into the wrong side of his bed as he beavered away on this article.

Milo Bell | 21.03.17 - 9:22 a.m. | #

And another great thing is we will get rid of all those pesky foreigners from hospitals. I know there won't be sufficient doctors and nurses to treat us in an emergency because a lot of them would have gone back to their home EU country but the important thing is that, had there been sufficient staff available to treat us, they would have been British.

Pedantic of Purley | 21.03.17 - 9:41 a.m. | #

@ Sarah

Methinks it's a marvellous melange of miscellany...

Gerry | 21.03.17 - 12:06 p.m. | #

I have taken inspiration from the Brexit vote to launch my own campaign to ban people from Kent coming to London to work, thus taking our jobs.

Others can deal with Essex and Surrey.

Chris | 21.03.17 - 4:48 p.m. | #

...here we go again! don't forget that for some people that either have it so bad or so good, brexit makes no difference.

Grumpy Anon | 21.03.17 - 5:51 p.m. | #

Seen from this side of the water, it's a great decision for more than forty years the UK has whined and moaned about member ship.
You can now go back to being Uncle Sam's lap dog, just like General de Gaulle warned.

Michael | 21.03.17 - 6:12 p.m. | #

The Remainers witter on and on, but the reason they lost the referendum is because they failed to see that the resources of the country are out of balance with the population.

Three of the most pressing domestic problems are housing, education and the NHS. In each case, the rapid increase in the population has outstripped the available resources.

As a friend of mine (a Leaver) said, "The referendum was the first time that I felt that my vote counted"

RayL | 21.03.17 - 6:45 p.m. | #

Loving RayL's hilariously ironic comment - very much in the vein of the satirical postings above.

Kendrick | 21.03.17 - 7:12 p.m. | #

I feel sorry for DG if more than half of his readers are leavers.

In any case, it's no big loss to lose them.

Madison | 21.03.17 - 8:17 p.m. | #

Brilliant set of posts. Brilliant!

Thomas | 21.03.17 - 9:04 p.m. | #

Michael, God help the UK if the lap they climb up upon is the Lion Trumpeter's.

Colesville Garth | 22.03.17 - 2:41 a.m. | #

Autolycus | Homepage | 22.03.17 - 9:44 a.m. | #

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