For anyone who voted Leave today is a great day to be alive.
For anyone who wanted to stay as part of the EU you’re probably crying into your porridge right now.
Financial markets are down, the pound is plummeting and those beers on holiday in Spain are going to cost a lot more.
But UKIP leader Nigel Farage is offering a ray of sunshine to Britain in the wake of the decision to leave the EU.
The long-time Eurosceptic and anti-EU campaigner is calling for this day to be henceforth known Britain’s ‘Independence Day’.
But he’s not stopped there. He wants June 23 – the day that Britain voted ‘out’ – to be a national bank holiday because it will “go down in our history as our independence day”.
Presumably so we can all have the day off to mark the historic day and do British things like moan about the weather, queue unnecessarily and and drink warm ale in our local pub beer garden.
How could you not want an extra day off work? Some people weren’t really that down with the idea…
If Farage things I'll celebrate an independence day he can piss off
— Sophie Kelly (@SophieC_Kelly) June 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/Michaeljordan59/status/746268227567763460
https://twitter.com/JustCallMeBash/status/746265474934112256
@Nigel_Farage wants June 23rd to be the UK Independence Day! Why don't you make it "UK crash day" instead? #Brexit
— Thomas Klauck (@thomas_klauck) June 24, 2016
Farage wants an independence day, like 183 other countries. Does he freaking realise most of them are celebrating independence from us??
— Alexandra Wingate (@ahwingate) June 24, 2016
Nigel Farage suggesting 23rd June should be a bank hol and called "Independence Day" is just genius! What a unique idea! Oh wait…… 😂
— Lynsey Dalglish (@lynseydalglish) June 24, 2016
Really insensitive for Nigel Farage to call this an 'independence day'. People really fought and died for TRUE independence
— Mina West (@MinaWest_) June 24, 2016
https://twitter.com/SophiePoo/status/746268389279154176
why is Nigel Farage trying to make june 23rd our own independence day? its not like we were slaves lmao
— kp (@katiepenny9) June 24, 2016
