COMMENT POSTED TO A COLUMN BY JOHN RENTOUL IN THE
INDEPENDENT
"But Boris
Johnson's clowning is a disservice to democracy..."
You must be kidding.
What about David Cameron's confused show? In fact it makes
Boris look positively dignified.
First, Cameron needlessly opens the entire matter of a
referendum, obviously having no inkling of what a mess he was making.
Then he goes over to Europe and spends a little photo-op
time with his sleeves rolled up in the company of senior people, trying to look
for all the world like the tough negotiator, can-do guy who was saving Britain
from the EU’s excesses.
Then he comes back home and puts on an asinine act about,
"Yes, I'd join the EU on these terms” which he negotiated. As it happens,
the terms are next to nothing in substance.
Then he invites (or pleads with, more likely) Obama to come
to tell Brits what's best for them. The Prez tells them in silly words full of
undefined threats undoubtedly written by Cameron's own crew.
While in Britain, the world's outstanding mass murderer
tells British youth not to be cynical and help change the world(!).
Then the Prez flies over to Germany to strong-arm Merkel
about the TTIP which Germans rightly reject overwhelmingly.
In both Britain and Germany, what the mass killer is really
doing is pushing the American imperial agenda. His words in both places had
nothing but bromides for the locals.
