QUOTE OF THE MONTH

“We are passengers locked in the back of a mini-cab with a wonky sat nav driven by a driver who doesn’t have perfect command of English and going in a direction, frankly, we don’t want to go.” 

“The most depressing thing is that there is not one shred of idealism in their argument. Not a single one of them will stand up and admit that this is a political project. 

No one will say ‘you know what, I rather love the idea of a federal Europe’ but they should. That’s the logic of their position. 

But that’s not what they say, what they keep saying is ‘I’m a eurosceptic of course - we’re all eurosceptics - but we’ve got no choice’.

They say ‘we all agree with you about the democratic problems, but it’s the price we have to pay’.

The EU, they say it’s crap but we have no alternative - that’s their line.”

“Well folks, I’m afraid we do have an alternative and it’s a glorious alternative.

A relationship with Europe based not on the whims of unelected bureaucrats, but on cooperation between elected governments where we can continue to work with our friends and our partners on matters of common interest - judicial, police cooperation, foreign, security, defence policy. 

We can do all that at intergovernmental level but where we are no longer subject to the stultifying one-way ratchet of supranational EU law.

Where we take back control of £350 million per week, take back control of our borders. And as for the people who say we can’t trade freely with the rest of the world, all the people who prophesy doom, who say that the pound would fall or that interest rates could rise or there will be a plague of frogs, you know who they remind me of?

They remind me of the prophets of doom who said the millennium bug would cause planes to fall from the sky, and they’re very often the same people who said it would be an economic disaster if we didn’t join the Euro. 

The very opposite turned out to be true and it’s precisely because we stayed out of the Euro that we now have the most dynamic economy in Europe.” 

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“I think that President Obama has got a perfect right to make any intervention that he wants. I just find it absolutely bizarre that we are being lectured by the Americans about giving up our sovereignty and giving up control when the Americans won’t even sign up to the international convention on the law of the seas, let alone the international criminal court.”

Boris Johnson MP (and Mayor of London) speaking recently