Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

Are you sure about that?

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

Although only a matter of legal status, and without any practical implications except for the british mep's, it seems to matter for those who are very sensitive to such changes.

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

I wish!

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

Nope. 67 mln brits will enter transition, for them the state between heaven and hell. A catholic would say you remain in purgatory for 11 months.

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

Looks like there will be celebrations after all with union Jack's hung in parliament square and a countdown clock projected on the side of number 10 Downing Street

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

A clock in Downing street - was that a typo?

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

Shhhh I don't think anyone has read the small print!

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

Going out today for my rockets, forget the bells!!
Donkeyman!

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

At 23:00 GMT Jan the UK will regain independence, a thing that should never have been handed over to the loathsome EU in the first place.

A proposal was made to sound Big Ben to celebrate this great event but the cost of doing so was said to be half a mil quid according to the civil service estimate.

Mark Francois, the Conservative MP for Rayleigh and Wickford has now shown the all up cost to be about fifteen thousand.

In addition various church leaders have vetoed a freedom peal to celebrate Freedom Day.

Just WTF is going on? The most stupendous event since the end of WW2 and a refusal to celebrate it?

I think it's time that the civil service swamp was drained and a bunch of men in dresses were picked up by the ears and thoroughly shaken.

In our little village we're having a professional firework display with BIG bangers, and in case the local vicar refuses to let the church bell ring I'm arranging a BIG PA system that will broadcast a recording of a peal of bells at a sound level at least double of the church bell.

Well a 1 kilowatt amplifier and matching speaker array would wouldn't it!


Anyone else going to have a public do to celebrate Freedom Day?

Re: It's official, Big Ben will chime on 31st January

Nope - no celebrations here AT. It is certainly nothing like the end of WW11 - no comparison. In fact, it should be a time for sober reflection not celebration.