Chronic. It’s been over thirty as Boris Johnson cultivates up to excellence this talent of lies of lies on the European issue. He takes a vaguely fact connected to reality, the wrong and the amplifies to make a false story, but who captures the imagination of the general public. When he was a journalist in Brussels, the current British Prime Minister caressed his eurosceptic readers in the direction of the hair writing that the “Eurocrats” were going to impose a smell test at the manure so that he is the same all within of the European Union (EU); That the Commission’s building would be destroyed and replaced by a huge tower, necessarily disproportionate; And that the Italians had asked to make smaller condoms … All this was absurd, but seemed vaguely credible, reinforcing the image of a tatillonne Europe and disconnected realities.
And now two days before Christmas, the Daily Telegraph, the daily life for which the Prime Minister has worked for decades, came out a typical Johnsonian story. Now that the United Kingdom was “released” of the European rules, Clamited the newspaper, The bottle of champagne of the size of a pint was going to make his back. Winston Churchill himself loved it, it seems, saying that 0.57 liters was exactly the volume he needed, “enough for two at lunch or one at dinner”.
The fact is that European legislation imposes the sale of wine or champagne in bottles that are multiples of 0.75 liter. But now, assured “a government source” at the Daily Telegraph, this injustice will be rectified: “The bottles of a pint have been victims of the EU war against imperial measures. (…) now that we [in ] Let’s get out, we can get rid of rules like this. “The information has been around the world: it is funny, simple, and on December 23 he did not happen much else.
Except that no one or almost claimed such a reform. “No wine maker works on this subject anywhere, braces, on Twitter, Daniel Lamberts, a wine importer based in Wales. It’s anything, not true, a lie, an invention.”
The lean assessment of “Singapore-sur-Thames”
The case would only have a frivolous anecdote if it does not illustrate an unpleasant truth for the Brexiteters: one year after the official release of the country of the single market, they have a hard time finding examples of its benefits . The economy has not collapsed but trade with the EU still decreased by about 15%. Their dreams of a great fire of joy of the European regulations have flew. The pioneers of Brexit spoke of reducing the framework of work schedules, to deregulate finance, to authorize genetically modified organisms … to create a sort of “Singapore-sur-Thames”, the opponents mocked. None of this happened. The resignation, December 19, David Frost, the Minister of Brexit, a supporter of this deregulatory line, reflects the defeat of the pioneers of Brexit.
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