A Londoner’s letter calling for the United Kingdom to change its name to Poundland has delighted Twitter.
Many Londoners have express their dismay after the Brexit campaign won a majority vote in the EU referendum.
After a vote which has divided much of the country, David Jones, from Notting Hill, suggested that the country should be renamed after the discount supermarket.
He wrote to the Times: “Sir, it is now surely unthinkable that we can continue to call our country the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
“The only thing uniting us is our currency. Perhaps Poundland would be more appropriate.”
Many people have praised Mr Jones’ letter on Twitter using the hashtag #poundland.
A petition calling for a second referendum proved so popular yesterday that the government website crashed due to the sheer amount of visitors.
More than 100,000 people have also signed a petition calling for London to declare its independence from the EU.
