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The EU – we’re out in March, stop messing about
SARAH WOOLLEY says the opportunities for the working-class outside the EU are something to celebrate
Sarah Woolley

I am looking forward to March 29 2019. That’s the day we will leave the EU. We should be having street parties.

As a mum of a 13-year-old, a Labour Party member and full-time trade union official living in a once busy industrial area, I am really proud that my community, like most working-class communities in the country, and most of the members of my union, like in fact union members across the board, voted to leave.

This was a positive vote and has rocked the Establishment and everyone not on the side of workers and their families. I reckon it’s the biggest chance we’ve had to express our views since the vote at 18 was finally achieved in 1969.

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