Despite the rigged polls, the hysteria, the emotional appeals, the stereotyping, the alarmist economic claims and the rest of the circus, British voters have voted to reclaim their independence.
It's good news for Britain and bad news for the rotten edifice of the Eurocrats being upheld with fraud, lies and bureaucratic malice. This is big. And unlike Ireland, the EU is going to have trouble shrugging and ordering the peasants to vote again. And this time to vote correctly.
Whether it was Project Fear or a love of the continent, London has voted heavily to remain in the European Union in an expected result in the capital city.
The multicultural and international city had polled as the most europhilic part of England before the referendum.
Also Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to stay in the EU. But Brexit won across the board in England. Londonistan lost. England won.
At the end of the American Revolution, the band played, "World turned upside down". Tonight the people of Britain held their own revolution and turned the world upside down. This isn't over. Not by a longshot. The elites want what they want. And if they can't get their way, economic pressure will be applied across the board, including from any Democratic US regime to punish the UK into a reunion with the EU.
Obama already made the threat openly. Expect it to get worse. But the second half of the second decade of the 21st is becoming swiftly the anti-enstablishment decade.
So I'll just leave this here.
There were two referendums on Thursday. The first was on membership of the EU. The second was on the British establishment. Leave won both, and the world will never be the same again.
It’s impossible to overstate how remarkable this victory is. Twenty years ago, Euroscepticism was a backbench Tory rebellion and a political cult. It was a dispute located firmly on the Right with little appeal to Labour voters. It took Ukip to drag it into the centre of political life – given momentum by the issue of immigration – and slowly it has emerged as a lightning rod for anti-establishment activism.
Even so – even as Leave pulled ahead in the polls – it was still impossible to think it could win. The murder of Jo Cox convinced me that it wouldn’t. I suspected that it would cement in most people’s minds a link between Brexit and risk: Leave forced this referendum, Leave created the febrile debate, Leave had to bear some responsibility for the air of chaos. Even I would’ve preferred the referendum to be cancelled. The whole thing made me feel sick to my stomach. There was talk of Leave support wilting and turnout dropping, while Remain was surging. Remain’s Project Fear evolved, inexplicably, into Project Tolerance. Now a vote for the EU was a vote for love. And if the British couldn’t be terrified into voting Remain, surely they could be guilted into doing it?
No. People wanted to have their say and they did. Up and down the country they defied the experts and went with their conscience. Labour voters most of all: the northeast rebelled against a century of Labour leadership. I am astonished. Staggered. Humbled. I should never have lost faith in my countrymen. Those bold, brave, beautiful British voters.
When I was leaving my polling station, I said to a chap: “I found voting quite emotional.” He replied that this was the day we got our freedom back. That’s how it feels for millions of Britons.