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I don't know if he is really that ignorant or deliberately trying to mislead people
The latter. He's not ignorant, but calculating.
The Brexit camp is in disarray, riven by personal emnity, and with arguments that don't stand up to serious scrutiny. They need to distract from this, so in classic, 'throw a dead cat on the table' style, Johnson comes out with this.
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The latter. He's not ignorant, but calculating.
The Brexit camp is in disarray, riven by personal emnity, and with arguments that don't stand up to serious scrutiny. They need to distract from this, so in classic, 'throw a dead cat on the table' style, Johnson comes out with this.
I wondered about that, but in the end I decided that I didn't think it really qualified as a 'dead cat', which, if I understand this correctly, at least has to have a small element of truth to it. The Nazi comparison doesn't, at all, and it will be defeated even more quickly than the nonsensical claims about the economy. Maybe it is meant to be a diversionary strategy, but by the continuing flurry of articles about the economy claims, it doesn't seem to have been very successful just yet.
Another opinion on it:
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/15/boris-johnson-eu-hitler-bad-taste-bad-judgment
Oliver Schick
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/15/boris-johnson-likens-eu-to-nazi-superstate
This is simply unbelievable. I don't know if he is really that ignorant or deliberately trying to mislead people, but let it be said, again, for the record, that the European idea was born precisely to prevent anything like the horror of the Nazi campaign to destroy it and its people from ever happening again. Plus, Europe, of course, is not attempting to create a 'superstate'. It is simply built on the idea that European states are stronger together than apart. There are uneasy tensions, as for instance between the desire by largely conservative politicians to create larger markets (to allow fewer, larger companies to dominate) and internationalist tendencies on the left, as recently articulated again by Jeremy Corbyn. None of that has anything to do with the Nazis, who first ruined Germany's economy and then partly out of desperation that their utter political failure (of 'autarkism', among other things, rather contrary to the European idea) would become too conspicuous, started the worst war ever known.
I just don't understand what he thinks he's playing at--so shortly after Livingstone's comments, too?