For many English voters, this was an opportunity to wave the flag of St George and restore a sense of national pride. Many resented what they saw as special treatment for other parts of the UK, particularly Scotland. In some respects, the vote for Brexit was a vote for English nationalism.The spirit of the age, or zeitgeist, is a rediscovered nationalism, expressed as a Hydra-headed anti-globalism. I note in passing that PM David Cameron has announced his departure, as I indicated he would last night. He had tied himself to the mast of HMS Remain and perforce went down with the sinking ship.
It was also a vote to stop foreigners and foreign ways changing the character of neighbourhoods and communities.
Also from the BBC, Brexit's contagion factor:
France's National Front leader Marine Le Pen said the French must now also have the right to choose.
Dutch anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders said the Netherlands deserved a "Nexit" vote while Italy's Northern League said: "Now it's our turn".
The anti-immigration Sweden Democrats wrote on Twitter that "now we wait for swexit!"
Kristian Thulesen Dahl, leader of the populist Danish People's Party, said a referendum would be "a good democratic custom".
Beatrix von Storch, of Germany's Eurosceptic AfD party, praising "Independence Day for Great Britain", demanded that Mr Schulz and European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker resign. "The European Union has failed as a political union," she said.
