Our cake-filled island has a bright future, post-Brexit

The Seven Sisters, viewed from Beachy Head.

The saddest thing about some of the Remainers who fought so hard to prevent Brexit was that they appeared to hate their own country and to take pleasure in running it down. Foremost amongst them was Emma Thompson, who called Britain a 'tiny little cloud-bolted, rainy corner of sort-of Europe, a cake-filled misery-laden grey old island'.

Of course, many who voted Remain were and are good, patriotic people who did so because they believed it to be in the best interests of their country. I have no quarrel with them, but those who, like Emma Thompson, seem to loathe their own country, do that country great damage.

Recently, looking back at the Seven Sisters as I trudged up to Beachy Head from Birling Gap, I felt fortunate to have been born on Emma Thompson's cake-filled island. Were I a less inept photographer, I should have captured the sight of a Spitfire overhead, flying from the Eastbourne Air Show. It was a reminder that an earlier generation fought and died for this island, and, in doing so, also helped win freedom for people across Europe.

Now, with Brexit on the way, I believe that the United Kingdom has a glorious opportunity to be a world-leading bastion of free trade, free speech and free enterprise. I shall use this blog to chart its progress and to counter the naysayers who long to see Brexit - and Britain - fail.

We now have a Prime Minister who has gone on record as saying that she would be prepared to die for the cause of freedom. With leadership like that, and with the world eager to trade with us, the future for this big, beautiful, cake-filled, joy-laden, green old island has never been brighter.