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I cannot stress too much that Britain is part of Europe – and always will be
The Telegraph ^ | 26 JUNE 2016 • 10:00PM | BORIS JOHNSON

Posted on 06/27/2016 3:53:28 AM PDT by Eurotwit

I believe that millions of people who voted Leave were also inspired by the belief that Britain is a great country, and that outside the job-destroying coils of EU bureaucracy we can survive and thrive as never before. I think that they are right in their analysis, and right in their choice. And yet we who agreed with this majority verdict must accept that it was not entirely overwhelming.

There were more than 16 million who wanted to remain. They are our neighbours, brothers and sisters who did what they passionately believe was right. In a democracy majorities may decide but everyone is of equal value. We who are part of this narrow majority must do everything we can to reassure the Remainers. We must reach out, we must heal, we must build bridges – because it is clear that some have feelings of dismay, and of loss, and confusion.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: borisjohnson; brexit; brixit; europeanunion; germany; nato; unitedkingdom; waronterror
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The nest British Prime Minister I predict.
1 posted on 06/27/2016 3:53:28 AM PDT by Eurotwit
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To: Eurotwit

He needs to hire Donald Trump’s hair stylist.

That’s because it takes more than just positive speeches to get elected. Attractive hair gives that crucial edge.


2 posted on 06/27/2016 4:01:43 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Eurotwit

My concern is .......IF it had gone the other way, if REMAIN had one.......just like IF Hillary wins here....

...do you think anyone would be reaching out in reconciliation to conservatives in America or Britain.

You KNOW that answer.

A BIG FAT NO


3 posted on 06/27/2016 4:06:22 AM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do....)
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To: Eurotwit

Don’t go wobbly on us Boris.


4 posted on 06/27/2016 4:08:44 AM PDT by AC86UT89
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To: Eurotwit

If fact, Britain may be the only remaining part of Europe in the near future. It more do not leave the EU, the continent of Europe will become Europistan.


5 posted on 06/27/2016 4:11:12 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Guenevere

Boris is just being a smart politician - but you’re absolutely right. If anything, the hostility would be continuing against the Leave contingent for daring to bring the subject to a vote.


6 posted on 06/27/2016 4:11:56 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: AC86UT89

He won’t - but he needs to start bringing the country back together.

I’ve just arrived in the UK - I had to go back. I’m probably going to buy a house now I feel confident there’ll always be an England.


7 posted on 06/27/2016 4:12:42 AM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: Eurotwit

The next British Prime Minister?

“Talking about his Muslim ancestry Johnson, a Christian, said that his great-grandfather, Haji Ahmed, was a successful businessman of Istanbul who had monopoly in honey wax business used to light lamps in mosques.”


8 posted on 06/27/2016 4:14:35 AM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

“To any non-Muslim reader of the Koran, Islamophobia — fear of Islam — seems a natural reaction, and, indeed, exactly what that text is intended to provoke. Judged purely on its scripture — to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques — it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers. As the killer of Theo Van Gogh told his victim’s mother this week in a Dutch courtroom, he could not care for her, could not sympathise, because she was not a Muslim.

The trouble with this disgusting arrogance and condescension is that it is widely supported in Koranic texts, and we look in vain for the enlightened Islamic teachers and preachers who will begin the process of reform. What is going on in these mosques and madrasas? When is someone going to get 18th century on Islam’s mediaeval ass?”

Boris Johnson.


9 posted on 06/27/2016 4:21:26 AM PDT by Eurotwit (u)
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To: Helicondelta

Actually that is threadwordy now isn’t it?


10 posted on 06/27/2016 4:22:56 AM PDT by Eurotwit (u)
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To: Eurotwit

Any time that I studied about ‘Europe’, it was The Continent.

Any National conflicts ‘in Europe’, always occured, after 1066, happened ‘on the Continent’.

The two World Wars, except for aerial bombings by zeppelins and modern aircraft over London, happened on The Continent.

The Soviet Expansion after World War 2, happened on The Continent.

So, by historical fact, England has been kept separate and whole, FROM The Continent, by divine design.

There is no country of origin on The Continent, that has actually had the word ‘Freedom’ in their founding documents, unlike The English Magna Carta.

Nowhere, except on The Continent, can a short in stature Corsican lower officer, or a private with a moustache, rise to cause so much turmoil, death, and war, causing two countries outside of ‘The Continent’, England and Russia, to come ‘and bail out the rest of the countries in the melee’.


11 posted on 06/27/2016 4:25:53 AM PDT by Terry L Smith
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To: Eurotwit

I can not stress enough that Britain is an island, and it takes an real idiot to confuse an island with a continent.


12 posted on 06/27/2016 4:37:17 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Eurotwit

? In so much as Europe does not become Turk...


13 posted on 06/27/2016 5:02:32 AM PDT by lavaroise (s)
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To: Helicondelta

Cool story, Bro.


14 posted on 06/27/2016 5:06:36 AM PDT by patq
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To: Terry L Smith
There is no country of origin on The Continent, that has actually had the word ‘Freedom’ in their founding documents, unlike The English Magna Carta.

Did you just make that up? Because that's total nonsense. The French Declaration of the Rights of Man, the cornerstone of the French Revolution and the basic founding document of the French Republic (helpfully written in part by an Englishman) uses the word "freedom" repeatedly. Just one example of several.

15 posted on 06/27/2016 5:10:07 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Terry L Smith

Incidentally the only time “freedom” is used in Magna Carta is to describe freedom of the Church - not freedom of religion mind you but the independent power of the then official Roman Catholic Church. No personal freedom is mentioned, at least using that word.


16 posted on 06/27/2016 5:13:57 AM PDT by Alter Kaker (Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
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To: Eurotwit

Can we get him to shave his head?


17 posted on 06/27/2016 5:41:07 AM PDT by dila813 (Voting for Trump to Punish Trumpets!)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks Eurotwit.

18 posted on 06/27/2016 6:02:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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To: MrEdd
I can not stress enough that Britain is an island, and it takes an real idiot to confuse an island with a continent.

I think that's the point. Britain isn't part of the 'Continent' so they've been kept somewhat separate from what happens to the continent.
19 posted on 06/27/2016 6:23:19 AM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: Eurotwit

Will he activate Article 50 his first day in office?


20 posted on 06/27/2016 6:25:18 AM PDT by Lower Deck
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