We are heartened. Boris the revolutionary has seen the light
Have years of tortured self-critique caused Johnson to see how awful colonialism would be for Britain?
Boris Johnson quit his position as Britain’s foreign minister this week, penning a letter to Prime Minister Theresa May in which he expressed his disappointment at her failure to exit the EU without compromising."Brexit should be about opportunity and hope. It should be a chance to do things differently, to be more nimble and dynamic, and to maximise the particular advantages of the UK as an open, outward-looking global economy."That dream is dying, suffocated by needless self-doubt," he wrote.Fascinating. But not nearly as fascinating as Johnson’s Damascene conversion from supreme colonial master to anticolonial rabble-rouser.It’s right there in his letter to May. Describing how Britain is now in the parlous position of having to stay in line with Europe’s regulations without having a say in their formulation, thanks to his successful Brexit campaign, he had this to say:"We are now in the ludicrous position of asserting that we must accept huge amounts of precisely such EU law, w...
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