With the UK out of the EU and the transition period now complete, former presenter, Simon Schama stated the nation could grieve over Britain’s departure from the bloc. He said: “Dear fellow British-Europeans – you can grieve at midnight for what has been lost, what has been harmed. “When they tell you to ‘move on’ do move on – to the long, strong, campaign to rejoin; however long it takes; it starts now.”
Following his comments, Express readers issued their anger at the attempt to kickstart the to ‘rejoin’ campaign.
One person commented on the Express.co.uk story: “What is wrong with these people?
“Their lack of confidence in UK plc borders on the traitorous.”
A second said: “Message to all those people who won’t accept a democratically voted decision.
“Go forth and multiply into the EU.”
A third said: “There is no one on the ‘re-join’ side, with the strength and grit and pure bloody-mindedness of Mr Nigel Farage.
“They are all ‘wet lettuces’, limp and sad. Including Simon Sharma, on the wrong side of history again.”
Another said: “The EU won’t be around long enough, for us to re-join.
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“Now it’s clear that we’ve got the red tape, the right thing to do is let Boris Johnson take responsibility for it, but those of us who have the best interest of the country at heart should now be in favour of joining the European customs union, the single market, protect our trade, protect our jobs and then we can have a much happier new year.”
After the Prime Minister agreed a trade deal with the EU, MPs voted 521 to 73 in favour of the agreement.
The deal was also given Royal Assent in the House of Lords in the same day as Mr Johnson vowed to push forward with Britain’s future.
He said: “The destiny of this great country now resides firmly in our hands.”
Despite the country voting to leave the EU in 2016, the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Lib Dems all voted against the deal.
A further 36 Labour MPs abstained during the vote despite Sir Keir Starmer whipping MPs to support the deal.
The agreement came into effect at 11pm on December 31.
