Back to Brexitland: Inside Britain’s most pro-Leave town
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The Times
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🗓️ 21 June 2021
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
This week marks five years since Britain voted to leave the European union. Today we go back to the heart of Brexitland in Boston, Lincolnshire.
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Guests:
-Zoe Beaty, Freelance writer for The Times and local in Boston. Her article can be found here.
-Iga Paczkowska, Boston resident.
-Gerry Roffey, Boston resident.
Host: Asya Fouks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Poppy Damon here, executive producer of Stories of Our Times. |
| 0:04.1 | Today's episode is presented by one of our producers, Asya Fuchs. |
| 0:08.1 | This week marks five years since Britain voted to leave the European Union. |
| 0:12.0 | Today we go back to the heart of Brexit land in Boston, Lincolnshire. |
| 0:18.5 | Well, at 20 minutes to five, we can now say the decision taken |
| 0:23.2 | in 1975 by this country to join the common market has been reversed |
| 0:28.5 | by this referendum. The British people have spoken and the answer is we're out. |
| 0:34.4 | On the morning of June 24th, 2016, the day after the EU referendum, |
| 0:40.0 | Iga Pichkovska took the long road to work. |
| 0:42.8 | I wasn't really thinking much. I just basically didn't want to go anyway. |
| 0:46.1 | I didn't want to get to the work to be honest because I didn't know what I |
| 0:49.6 | going to tell my clients. Iga had moved to Boston from Fridnic Poland in 2011. |
| 0:54.8 | For years she's been running a charity that helps the Polish community |
| 0:58.2 | and other immigrants living in and around Boston. |
| 1:01.5 | So she knew her clients, her friends. They'd be turning to her for answers. |
| 1:06.4 | I knew that people was going to ask me about what does it mean for us, |
| 1:10.8 | what are we going to do now and if things like that. |
| 1:12.8 | And I really didn't have words to describe what's going to happen because nobody knew. |
| 1:17.5 | Nobody knew. And to be honest, five years in and we still don't know anything, |
| 1:22.4 | I don't feel like I'm fully aware of what's going to happen. |
| 1:25.7 | And so yeah, so I didn't really want to go to work. |
| 1:29.8 | I just basically wanted to be on my own with my own thoughts because |
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