As a historian, I can assure you this is the most tumultuous event of modern times, a people's revolt against the elite that's been brewing for years Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Mail

There are times, not very often, when you can feel history being made. An archduke falls, a wall comes down, a plane hits a building, and in that moment you can feel the ground shifting beneath your feet.

When those initial results came in from Sunderland and Newcastle in the early hours of yesterday morning, I could barely believe it. Even now, to write the words 'Britain has voted to leave the EU' feels extraordinary, like a leap into some alternative reality.

For once, all the cliches are justified. This was not merely an electoral earthquake. It was a popular revolt by vast swathes of England and Wales against the political, financial and cultural elite, whose complacent assumptions have been simply blown away.

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Further reading:

1)     What apocalypse? How British shares bounced back: Stock markets in Europe fare far worse than UK after historic EU vote,  Daily Mail

2)     Take a bow, Britain! The quiet people of our country rise up against an arrogant, out-of-touch political class and a contemptuous Brussels elite, Daily Mail comment;

3)     Complacency and premature celebrations in the Number 10 bunker turned to panic - then tears, Andrew Pierce, Daily Mail