During the UK’s referendum
campaign, the Remain camp have argued very strongly that one of the EU’s
greatest achievements has been to make war between its member countries
unthinkable. If you look at Europe’s history, the normal state of the continent
since the dawn of recorded history is not peace, but war.
I am very grateful
for the EU’s peace-keeping achievement. My father and grandfather both had to
go to war in Europe. My son and I have not had to.
The Leave campaign
have tried to dismiss this achievement, with Boris Johnson comparing the EU to
Hitler. But in the past, Johnson admitted that to save us fighting any more
wars in Europe, we need to be ‘intimately engaged in the doings of a
continent that has a grim 20th-century history, and whose agonies have caused
millions of Britons to lose their lives.’
How disgraceful to
change sides and risk the peace of Europe just because he thinks it will help
him become Prime Minister.
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