Both were ill-advised and true.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.

One comment - which was made in defence of someone proposing the removal of an ethnic/ religious group - pointed out that someone else had also proposed moving this group to their own state but decided to kill them all instead.

Would you care to illustrate how what Boris said is comparable, other than the fact that they mention the same person?

Edited by johnfirewall (16 May 2016 12.52pm)

When i look at what Boris said objectively, i think he was trying to appeal to the much older voter who would remember either ww2 or its aftermath i.e rations, poverty etc. But Boris is a skilled politician and i think he blundered this time because the analogy most people have of the Nazi regime is not just one of tanks rolling across Poland and the Battle of Britain but also of truly hideous crimes against humanity, a holocaust and a regime that brutalised its own people and every one of its neighbouring countries....and its this analogy which people will make which is why i think he made a mistake to use it....its also quite divisive for people of German, French or Italian origin whose families often fought and died fighting Hitler, Mussolini or even Napoleon and similarly say "never again"...sorry but he did no favours for the leave campaign.
I think the remain campaign goofed last week, first Obama saying back of the queue/line and then Cameron talking of war...both unhelpful to the remain campaign but this weekend was one where the leave campaign shot themselves in the foot. Not only Boris but Farage said he would, if he had to chose, vote for Donald Trump....another blunder i'm afraid given the rhetoric that Trump has used in his primary campaign i.e that of a dangerous fascist....
And lastly IDS saying he was looking out for the working man...i mean IDS!! Then Andrew Neil pointed out that he had voted against the eu working time directive, paternity pay and other equality and workers rights, how could he now be believed? TBH i thought it was embarrassing and if i was coordinating the leave campaign i would be looking to more moderate leave campaigners e.g Gove, Hamman, Lamont to make my case.

What Boris really thinks and in his own words:

"It was his [Churchill] idea to bring these countries together. To bind them so indissolubly that they could never go to war again. And who can deny today that this idea has been a spectacular success? Together with NATO (another institution for which he can claim joint credit) the European Community, now Union, has delivered a period of peace and prosperity for its people as long as any since the days of the Antonine emperors”.

The unofficial leader of Brexit. Ever feel you've been had?

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Good stuff Kermy ... but it doesn't "trump" the revelation yesterday that Osborne has teamed up with Ed Balls to promote the economic arguments for the Remain campaign... having previously trashed Balls' economic reputation (when Balls wasn't doing that himself)

There are now a pretty formidable team of w@nkers, liars, underachievers and u turners on the Remain camp...

Blair
Brown
Major
Corbyn
Balls
Blunkett
Cameron
Osborne
Mandelson
Miliband
Kinnock

I do hope they don't put Blunkett in goal!

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