I read a really interesting article on the Raedwald blog this morning about the subject of celebrating the exit of Britain from the EU on the 31^st of this month. There’s not going to be any massive official celebration of this historic occasion and due to the cost of temporarily reinstating the Big Ben bell at Westminster there will be no ‘bongs’ at 11pm GMT, the exact time of our leaving.

But there is nothing to suggest that ordinary citizens should not celebrate the occasion when Britain starts on the path of freeing itself from the clutches of an ever more imperialist European Union. Outside of the more remainiac areas like London I predict that there will be lots of pub and home gatherings to celebrate Exit Day. However there is one problem, as Raedwald stated with marking the start of the path to freedom with a bang and that is that fireworks are forbidden by law after 11pm on any day other than Guy Fawkes night, Diwali, Chinese New Year and Christian new year.

I wonder how many people will risk a visit from plod (if they are not too busy searching for hurty words on the Internet that is) in order to let off a few fireworks to celebrate Exit Day. Like Raedwald I predict that quite a few people will do this in spite of the risk of a £90 fixed penalty fine or a theoretical £5k fine for using fireworks illegally.

I reckon that there will be a fair amount of people, especially in rural areas and those areas that voted Leave in massive numbers, who will say ‘sod plod’ and let off a few rockets. I know I will. I’ll be letting off a few fireworks but I’ll be lighting the blue touchpapers just before 11pm in order to technically stay within the law.

Others are likely to put on a short guerilla display on public ground such as playing fields with anything from a few individual rockets to a couple of firework ‘cakes’ wedged into a shopping trolley and pushed by patriots into a park or onto a football field or a common, going up into the night sky. I suspect that there will be quite a few of these ‘light the fuse and hide’ celebrations. It’s quite possible that Britons could be in for an interesting and colourful night as patriots defy the law and let off fireworks to celebrate Brexit.

Personally I believe that this is such a momentous occasion that the police would be wise to leave these short celebrations alone unless of course there are public order concerns. This is because the relationship between the police and the public is already pretty strained and being seen as killjoys in uniform will only increase the divide between police and policed.

At last Britain is on the path of leaving the EU and that is something that should be celebrated whether with fireworks or with beer. It’s been a long long road to the exit so why shouldn’t patriots celebrate seeing some light at the end of the tunnel.

So how are you going to celebrate Brexit Day? Let us know below.