Boris Johnson has spoken at last – and it’s a farce

Published: June 27, 2016 at 10:27am

Boris Johnson has written a column for the pro-Leave Sunday Telegraph, in which he lays out his vision for the United Kingdom outside the European Union.

Except that there are no facts. Read it and you will see that he is telling people – with what I think amounts to criminal irresponsibility – that they will still be part of the European Union, with all the benefits that entails, including freedom of movement, research and cooperation, trade and funding. It’s just that they won’t have all those inconvenient and annoying laws to deal with. In other words, they can get out of the legislation but keep the rest.

Really, what a shady liar. He is another example of what I and others mean when we say that you can’t trust a man in public life who cheats in his private life, because the pathologically negative personality traits which make them cheat and lie in their personal affairs to protect themselves and get/keep what they want are exactly the same ones – obviously, it’s the same person – which will have them lying and cheating in their public life for the same reasons.

Boris Johnson is a serial philanderer and cheat. Listening to him now is like listening to him telling his latest companion that of course she’s imagining things, that it’s not like that at all, that everything will be all right blah blah blah.

Why people continue to trust somebody who has repeatedly proved himself untrustworthy is beyond me to understand.

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