This morning's Daily Telegraph carries Boris Johnson's "exclusive" column (for which he gets about £300,000 per year and must therefore make him a "stooge" for the Telegraph) in which he says, "It is said that those who voted Leave were mainly driven by anxieties about immigration. I do not believe that is so. After meeting thousands of people in the course of the campaign, I can tell you that the number one issue was control – a sense that British democracy was being undermined by the EU system".
If he genuinely believes this he must have attended a lot of very different debates to those we saw on the television where so called sovereignty was quite low down the order of importance. In the east of England, I would say immigration was clearly the main issue. And since remainers were obviously not too concerned either, one wonders where Nigel Farage's famous poster came from or why Vote Leave focused so much on Turkey's supposed immediate accession.
Mr Johnson has said he is in favour of immigration but simply wants to control the type of person allowed in. This will have absolutely no effect on school places or the claimed pressures on the NHS and will create endless problems about who will actually make the decision to allow any particular person in. It looks like a bureaucratic nightmare.
In an article full of other totally unfounded assertions, he said, "We had one Scotland referendum in 2014, and I do not detect any real appetite to have another one soon". Really? One wonders what planet Boris looks like when you see what Scotland's First Minister was doing while he wrote the article (see HERE).
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