EU & Boris Johnson
May. 28th, 2016 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arganoidMy letter to the Newmarket News, May 2016. I know the bit about glass houses doesn't quite make sense but I couldn't resist getting it in regardless:
Just a few months ago, Boris Johnson wrote “It is also true that the single market is of considerable value to many UK companies and consumers, and that leaving would cause at least some business uncertainty, while embroiling the Government for several years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements, so diverting energy from the real problems of this country – low skills, low social mobility, low investment etc – that have nothing to do with Europe". He also wrote “In favour of staying, it is in Britain’s geo-strategic interests to be pretty intimately engaged in the doings of a continent that has a grim 20th-century history, and whose agonies have caused millions of Britons to lose their lives". Two years ago he wrote "the European Community, now Union, has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperor" - yet the other day he described the same argument, made by the Prime Minister, as "wholly bogus", and implied that Cameron was suggesting World War 3 would break out if we exited – a ludicrous caricature of what the PM actually said. Boris – when it comes to ludicrous caricatures, people in glass houses…
Just a few months ago, Boris Johnson wrote “It is also true that the single market is of considerable value to many UK companies and consumers, and that leaving would cause at least some business uncertainty, while embroiling the Government for several years in a fiddly process of negotiating new arrangements, so diverting energy from the real problems of this country – low skills, low social mobility, low investment etc – that have nothing to do with Europe". He also wrote “In favour of staying, it is in Britain’s geo-strategic interests to be pretty intimately engaged in the doings of a continent that has a grim 20th-century history, and whose agonies have caused millions of Britons to lose their lives". Two years ago he wrote "the European Community, now Union, has helped to deliver a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperor" - yet the other day he described the same argument, made by the Prime Minister, as "wholly bogus", and implied that Cameron was suggesting World War 3 would break out if we exited – a ludicrous caricature of what the PM actually said. Boris – when it comes to ludicrous caricatures, people in glass houses…
