There’s a chapter in the Book of Ecclesiastes which is often read at funerals and the committal of ashes, and which begins: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up that which is planted.”
Now, I would suggest, Great Britain should be focused on a time to heal, after last week’s referendum which brought a mixture of excitement, dismay, recriminations, anger and, for some, jubilation.
The day of the result I was walking through our local park in Kent – a solid Brexit area – when I stopped to talk to a neighbour. “Look,” she said, “the main thing now is that we must all pull together – however we voted.”
