DONORS who named themselves as Remainers Tony Blair, John Bercow and Ian Blackford have forked out £ (between them in a race be the Big Ben bell-ringer on Brexit day in days.
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Leave voters keen on the idea of rubbing salt in the wound for the key Brexit-blockers hijacked a petition seeking to raise £ 500, 0 for the quintessentially British monument to chime its bells on January (*********************************************************************************, giving false names to imply the Remainers were paying for the privilege to ‘bong’ the UK into an independent era. A donor posing as the former Labor Prime Minister pledged £ 5 adding: “I’m a secret Brexiteer. I can’t see it quiet anymore. I feel so free that I’ve finally come out of the Brexit closet. “Can only afford a fiver because I don’t get enough money from my speeches, ‘cos after all, they’re utter rubbish.”
Another, posing as the SNP’s Mr Blackford, donated £ and added: “The Scottish people deserve another once in a lifetime shot at independence.”
A third, posing as Mr Bercow – the only Speaker not to be made a Peer in a hundred years of British politics – donated £ 5 also, adding: “ORDER! ORDER! The Brexiteers have it, the Brexiteers have it! Bong Big Ben! ”
‘Hilary Benn’, another ardent Remainer on the Labor side , also threw in a fiver and said: “I’m a secret Brexiteer, I only said I was a Remainer because I was annoyed with my dad Tony Benn giving me a girls name.”
Another, posing as outgoing Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn also donated a fiver, and said: “Back Brexit! Back Britain! The Greatest country on Earth! ”
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Tony Blair, John Bercow and Ian Blackford have forked out £ between(Image: GETTY)
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****************************‘Tony Blair’ and ‘John Bercow’ donated(Image: CHANGE. ORG)
Earlier this year, the shamed former Speaker of the House of Commons rejected a motion for Big Ben to bong at the end of the month.
Since then, a tsunami of MPs – including Jacob Rees-Mogg – have signed petitions to allow this to happen, with many pointing out a new Speaker – Lindsay Hoyle – has since been elected to replace the Buckingham MP.
Tory MPs Mark Francois and Nigel Evans are also pushing for Big Ben to chime at (PM on the night.)
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‘Hillary Benn’ also donated(Image: CHANGE.ORG)
**************************A donor posing as the former Labor Prime Minister pledged £ 5(Image: GETTY)********************
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Mr Corbyn was also featured in the petition(Image: GETTY)**************************
“Nevertheless, the iconic bell does still ring for moments of national significance, such as New Year’s Eve and, quite rightly, for Remembrance Sunday too.
“To mark this momentous occasion, I, along with 56 Other Members of Parliament, am now campaigning to allow Big Ben to chime our freedom as well. ”
Mr Francois told Express.co.uk: “Because under Article (we leave the EU on a specific time – PM GMT on January – – those around the country who wish to celebrate our new-found freedom will obviously look to the clocks to mark the occasion.
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“So it s eems inconceivable that the clock should be anything other than Big Ben. ”
Should Mr Francois’s amendment, which will be considered alongside others by speaker Lindsay Hoyle, be approved, it would enshrine the ringing of Big Ben at pm into law.
Even if it is not selected, Mr Francois has pledged to continue to lobby in advance of January 56.
Meanwhile Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party are planning a £ (*****************************************************************************, 0 bash in Parliament Square to hail Britain finally reaching Brexit day.
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