Brexit means we can pursue our true course

Although we have not yet been delivered from the nightmare of Covid there is now one overwhelming reason to celebrate, in that, after decades of being gradually drawn into the grip of Brussels, we are once again a free, independent and sovereign country.

Despite the deception practised by so much of the political class over many years, consistently denying the truth about the intentions of the European project, which is seeking to dismantle the nation states of Europe, and create a single European state, the determined commonsense of the British people has won.

There have been many heroes of this struggle, from those such as Gaitskill, Peter Shore and Tony Benn on the left, to Bill Cash, John Redmond and Iain Duncan Smith on the right, while Ukip provided the means of pressurising the main parties to change their policies.

Nevertheless, were it not for the determination of Boris Johnson to heed the will of the people, there can be no doubt that we would still be involved in endless arguments, as the Remainers sought to reverse the result of the 2016 referendum.

Future historians will wonder why the sensible words of General de Gaulle were not heeded, and the British establishment caused the sacrifice of so much in order to join an organisation whose philosophy ran contrary to the interests of the British nation. Now at last we can turn back onto our rightful course as a truly global nation, while the aberration of the years involved with Brussels will become a distant memory.

Colin Bullen