Boston, Lincolngrad: I saw the seething resentment. Now it is time to finish the revolution, says PETER HITCHENS
They
shouldn’t have tried to scare us. It is a sign of how little the
Remainers understand or know about Britain, and above all about England,
that they thought that would work.
I
do sometimes wonder if these odd denatured shiny types, who actively
prefer foreign rule to their own, ever visit their own country. Confined
to glossy multicultural London neighbourhoods for most of the year,
they then hurry abroad.
Most
of them are more familiar with Florence or Barcelona than they are with
the equal glory of Lincoln Cathedral, whose history, beauties and
significance are alike unknown to them.
Well,
they should have tried harder to visit Britain. They might also have
learned to like it, its unspectacular difference from anywhere else in
the world (I know, I’ve visited 57 other countries), its gruff reserve
that masks much deeper feelings, and its ancient dislike of being pushed
around.
