In a magnificent affirmation of national self-belief and character, their resounding message to the elite was:
We are fed up with being disdained and ignored over the issues about which we feel strongly.
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We deserve better than to be treated as a mere offshore province of an unelected, anti-democratic, corrupt pan- European bureaucracy.
We have less to be ashamed of than any other nation on Earth. We gave the world Parliamentary democracy, the industrial revolution, Magna Carta, human rights and free trade.
So we will not go on bowing to unaccountable judges and commissioners, while being denied any more power than countries such as Latvia and Lithuania.
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