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Please Leave My Town

Please Leave My Town

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Please Leave My Town is a statement said to Prime Minister Boris Johnson by a Leeds citizen while shaking his hand. The quick interaction filmed by the BBC was caught by a Twitter user who then posted a clip of the interaction in September 2019. The sentence promptly turned into a hashtag and rally-cry for those not in support of Boris Johnson.

Origin

On September 5th, 2019, Twitter user @sturdyAlex uploaded a BBC clip of a Leeds man shaking Brois Johnson's hand and saying, “Please leave my town" to which Johnson replied “I will, very soon" (shown below). The tweet gained over 120,300 likes and 32,400 retweets in a day.



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On September 5th, 2019, many Twitter users commented on the interaction as a very British thing to do. Twitter user @SnazzyAzzy[1] tweeted, "What a quintessentially British and polite way to basically tell the Prime Minister to fuck off. #PleaseLeaveMyTown" (shown below, left). The hashtag spread and the next day the @ChronHib[2] Twitter account posted the Old Irish translation of Please Leave My Town (shown below, center). Various Twitter users, like @KevinPascoe[3] began posting the hashtag #PleaseLeaveMyCountry to relay that Boris Johnson is not welcome in Scotland and Wales either (shown below, right).


Azmina @SnazzyAzzy What a quintessentially British and polite way to basically tell the Prime Minister to f--- off. #PleaseLeaveMyTown 5:12 PM Sep 5, 2019 Twitter Web App Chroi, ChronHib @ChronHib 18h Hib And to round up this day: Old Irish for #PleaseLeaveMyTown is Arcu, fĂĄcaib mo chathraig! Chror. ChronHib Hib @ChronHib Although, come to think about it, they'd probably rather have said: Arcu, fĂĄcaib mo thĂșaith! 5:07 PM Sep 5, 2019 Twitter Web App Kevin Pascoe #GTTO @KevinPascoe Johnson not welcome in Wales either #PleaseLeaveMyTown #PleaseLeave MyCountry Marilyn @StarryTowers 19h Replying to @JackMcKelvie Johnson not welcome in Scotland #PleaseLeaveMyTown #PleaseLeaveMyCountry 5:25 AM Sep 6, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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NONRemainiacs Podcast @RemainiacsCast FOREIGN LANGUAGE SHOUT OUT: For next week's show we want as many non-English European languages saying "Please leave my town" as we can get. Can you help? Record it on your phone and send it to info@remainiacs.com - we'll use as many as we can. Cheers! TEAM REMAINIACS Mark "Collapsible Truncheon" Thompson @MarkR... 7h Replying to @sturdyAlex Your foreign language clip next week should be a mashup of people saying this in every EU language. Cc @RemainiacsCast 5:06 AM Sep 6, 2019 Twitter for iPad Amanda Jennings @MandaJJennings The very polite man asking the PM to #PleaseLeaveMyTown has given me joy. Can you imagine if everybody just met him, shook his hand, smiled and said 'Please leave my town' for the rest of his time in No.10? Very British trolling 3:13 PM Sep 5, 2019 Twitter Web App Mr Ethical @nw_nicholas "Please leave my town" is almost Shakespearean "Take thy face hence." 5:07 AM Sep 6, 2019 Twitter Web App Peter Thompson, Esq. @PeterTh56526092 Replying to @sturdyAlex That is cutting. So measured and polite. So effective. 'Will you please leave my town' 3:22 PM Sep 5, 2019 Twitter for iPhone Will Black @WillBlackWriter I love the polite "Please leave my town" man. Have any DJs sampled it yet? #PleaseLeaveMyTown 5:42 PM Sep 5, 2019 Twitter for Android SuperCoolEskimo @SuperCoolEskimo My favourite bit is the dismissive 'off you f---' pat on the back at the end. A work of art #PleaseLeaveMyTown SuperCoolEskimo @SuperCoolEskimo 21h The hero we need #PleaseLeaveMyTown twitter.com/sturdyalex/sta... 5:07 PM Sep 5, 2019 Twitter for iPhone

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[1] Twitter – SnazzyAzzy

[2] Twitter – ChronHib

[3] Twitter – KevinPascoe

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