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DAILY Politics presenter Andrew Neil had fun yesterday replaying a clip of Nick Clegg addressing the Oxford Union in December 2015, comparing die-hard opponents of Britain’s membership of the EU to Japanese soldiers on isolated Pacific islands who couldn’t accept that the second world was over.
“They’ll carry on arguing and arguing on while the rest of us will just move on and carry on with the rest of our lives,” Clegg scoffed, anticipating that last June’s referendum would reject the campaign to leave.
Clegg and successor Tim Farron have since adopted honorary Japanese soldier status after the electorate failed to accept the Establishment line.
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