Tuesday, December 4, 2012

London Mayor calls for reduced UK role in EU, says EU is anti-democratic and therefore intellectually and morally wrong

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12/4/12, "Boris Johnson calls for 'pared down' EU relationship," BBC

"The London Mayor said Britain should remain in the single market but pull out of the political union....

"I don't understand why we continually urge the eurozone countries to go forward with this fiscal and political union, when we know in our hearts that it is anti-democratic and therefore intellectually and morally wrong."

In a question and answer session after the speech at financial news service Thomson Reuters, he said the euro had been "nightmare" for its members, and predicted: "It will eventually blow up but I wouldn't care to bet on when.""...

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