Leave camp must be pretty pleased with how things are going, having positioned themselves as Ealing comedy underdogs
The Ealing comedy Passport to Pimlico is set in postwar London with austerity at its height. Inhabitants find that they can escape rationing because the district was once part of Burgundy during a conflict that has never formally ended. They set up their own kingdom within a kingdom, defiantly resisting attempts by Westminster to bludgeon them back into line.
The mood of stubborn resistance is summed up by one of the characters whose Englishness is called into question. “We always were English and we always will be English and it’s because we are English that we are sticking up for our right to be Burgundian.”
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Continue reading...from Business blog | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/15/brexit-maintain-stubborn-mood-chilling-eu-referendum-warnings
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