I guess from a purely legalistic viewpoint, it has to be 31-1-20. Mrs NJ and I - most unexpectantly - celebrated on 24th June ‘16 (my local Waitrose had almost run out of assorted alcoholic fizz by 10am). However, neither we nor our fellow celebrants envisaged the guerrilla warfare that would be waged in the following three and a half years as the Great and the...
It isn’t really an independence day though is it?
We have not thrown off the shackles of a monarchy and replaced it with self rule.
Prior to 1973 we were not ‘independent’, and after 31st January we will not be.
We joined a club, and then we left a club.
Even when the books are written we won't know definitively, woofgang.
It'll depend on how a given author views events and how the same is promoted as 'the truth'.
A lot like Answerbank really, bray long and loud until dissenters shrug and move on realising how unimportant it all was.
Are you implying return of control of ourselves to ourselves is unimportant ?
I guess everything is unimportant to an infinite sized universe here for an infinite length of time.
Nobody remembers the date we joined the EU, I don't think the date of leaving will be a date history will remember that much. (Not sour grapes before anyone starts, its just political dates aren't usually remembered historically)
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