A giant effigy of Boris Johnson, Britain's former foreign secretary and leading Brexiteer, has been burned during bonfire night celebrations on Saturday in Kent, England.
Johnson, who has regularly been photographed returning home from morning jogs wearing shorts, said during a speech in March 2016 that Britain is an exporter of "particularly dense and glutinous chocolate cake" to the EU and in an interview with The Sun newspaper, described his endorsement of a hard Brexit as "having our cake and eating it."
Before the 2016 Brexit referendum, the "leave" campaign plastered a bus with the eye-catching and inaccurate claim that Britain sends the EU 350 million pounds (454 million US dollars) a week, that could instead go into the NHS, the country's national health service.
The net figure Britain sends is about half that.
The British town of Edenbridge in Kent traditionally burns an effigy of a notorious figure on Guy Fawkes night.
Last year organisers burnt an effigy of Harvey Weinstein and the year before one of US President Donald Trump.
Communities across Britain hold fireworks displays to mark the anniversary of Guy Fawkes' failed 1605 plot to blow up Parliament.
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