What Date Will History Deem To Be U K Independence Day?

[ToraToraTora]

Should it be 23rd June 2016 when we decided to leave or 1st Feb 2020 the first full day of freedom from the EUSSR?.

[Apc2604]

Definitely the latter.

[douglas9401]

The 12th of never.

[Old_Geezer]

Get two.

[Gromit]

It isn’t really an independence day though is it?
We have not thrown off the shackles of a monarchy and replaced it with self rule.
Prior to 1973 we were not ‘independent’, and after 31st January we will not be.
We joined a club, and then we left a club.

[Old_Geezer]

We joined a club, which turned into a controlling authority, then escaped from it.

[Apc2604]

31 Jan will be much the same as being released from prison with provisions!

[dannyk13]

Gromit// shackles of a monarchy//
Poppycock.

[Apc2604]

....... and a tag!

[dannyk13]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51118976

[vulcan42]

If we're going to have a day off, let's have it in the summer, we can celebrate better.

[Old_Geezer]

Perhaps it should be at the end of the transition period. Let's have 3 days then. (Although we already mark New Year.)

[ToraToraTora]

gromit still munching on sour grapes I see, the monarchy is a figure head elected politicians will once again run the country.

[Khandro]

//We joined a club, and then we left a club.//

Yes, but by stealth it had incrementally transformed itself into being a completely different club from the one we joined.

[woofgang]

we won't know until the history books are written

[douglas9401]

Even when the books are written we won't know definitively, woofgang.
It'll depend on how a given author views events and how the same is promoted as 'the truth'.

A lot like Answerbank really, bray long and loud until dissenters shrug and move on realising how unimportant it all was.

[Old_Geezer]

Are you implying return of control of ourselves to ourselves is unimportant ?
I guess everything is unimportant to an infinite sized universe here for an infinite length of time.

[Mozz71]

Nobody remembers the date we joined the EU, I don't think the date of leaving will be a date history will remember that much. (Not sour grapes before anyone starts, its just political dates aren't usually remembered historically)

[Samuraisan]

God I wish TTT would stop calling the EU EUSSR.

[Lie-in King]

Yawn.

[ToraToraTora]

gromit still munching on sour grapes I see, the monarchy is a figure head elected politicians will once again run the country.