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A giant 10-metre tall EU flag has been hung outside Ecotricity's HQ by controversial owner Dale Vince.

The entrepreneur, who founded and heads Stroud-based Ecotricity, is calling the stunt a 'cheeky up-yours' to those at Westminster, reports Gloucestershirelive.

In a Facebook post he said: "It's for Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage, the hard Brexiteers who want to drag us out of the EU

"I think the EU is a great thing, if you look at the impact it's had on Britain in particular in cleaning up our waterways and beaches and stuff.

"A lot of the environmental legislation we've embraced today came from Europe, over the heads of our government."

Founded in 1996, Ecotricity currently employs 700 people and specialises in selling green energy alternatives to cut down on nuclear energy usage

In the Facebook post he wrote: "I believe Brexit is a mistake – a close vote based on guesswork, supposition and deceit (with actual electoral fraud thrown in).

"It happened almost three years ago, and so much has changed since then.

"We all know now much more about the actual impact of leaving the EU – and there are no versions that make us better off."

Mr Vince, who also chairs the world's first all-vegan football club, Forest Green Rovers, says that Brexit is halting the government from passing any domestic legislation, as well as helping them 'ignore climate change'.

He continued: "Climate change is this massive threat looming in the background - we have 10 years to solve it.

"That focus on Brexit - we need that on climate change right now."