IT’S exactly 10 years to the day when the first results of the Brexit referendum from the north-east of England began to indicate a victory for Leave, albeit a narrow one, 52-48.

The outcome plunged British politics into the turmoil which has lasted throughout those 10 years.

We now have an unprecedented seven prime ministers in a decade. Who knows, but there might be another one in 2029.

The Brexit result was greeted on TV here as it emerged that early morning by a group of the political pygmies unionist voters elect, cheering something whose consequences they didn’t understand.

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At that early stage those DUP dupes didn’t know that in the north, a majority of both nationalist and unionist voters had supported remaining in the EU.

Despite the result here, the DUP pressed on, disregarding local democratic consent, which they always do when it suits them.

It took 18 months for the penny to drop. Everything they’d been told was either wrong or a lie or both.

By December 2017 it had become clear that the hard British border in Ireland they’d hoped for wasn’t going to happen.

A panicky Arlene Foster rang........

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