BREXIT ROW: Boris Johnson compares ‘superstate obsessed’ European Union to Hitler
BORIS Johnson has compared the European Union’s relentless efforts to create a superstate to Hitler’s attempt to dominate the continent.
By PATRICK CHRISTYS
Express.co.uk
Sun, May 15, 2016
The former Mayor of London said history teaches us that any such attempts to create a unified supranational body have always been doomed to failure.
Mr Johnson said the last 2,000 years of European history have seen multiple efforts to invoke the “golden age” of the Roman Empire, but none have been successful.
He said: “Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically. The EU is an attempt to do this by different methods.
“But fundamentally what is lacking is the eternal problem, which is that there is no underlying loyalty to the idea of Europe.
“There is no single authority that anybody respects or understands. That is causing this massive democratic void.”
His statement comes as Ukip boss Nigel Farage controversially declared that he was “a Boris fan” and left the door open to potentially working with the leading Tory at some point in the future if the Brexit campaign is successful.
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