In the wake of Rodney Leach's initiative yesterday, to have Boris Johnson today coming up with virtually the same agenda is not a coincidence.

This is part of the three-legged europhile strategy that we saw emerging last month as an antidote to euroscepticism and the "out" movement. We can call this the "Reform-Renegotiate-Scare" (RRS) strategy.

Johnson, like Leach, is running the Tory-inspired "renegotiate" leg, speaking at a Thomson Reuters "Newsmaker" event in London. He is another one pretending that Britain can renegotiate a relationship with the EU, this time with the idea that we could cut back our involvement to "the single market only".

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One wonders as well whether Johnson sees the threat, via the above statement, that a new treaty which moves the Eurozone towards its intentional destination, of Britain being pushed out of the EU as a consequence.

I watched the vid of Johnson speaking ... embarrassing! Bumbling delivery, hesitant, incoherent and uninspiring. This did not strike me as a man who was master of his brief. I think he is just mouthing what he has been told to say.

Fair enough, I'm always wary of 'Boris the Bumbler' persona - in some ways I think it's an act to fool people into underestimating him - on the other hand he could just be exactly what you say...

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Seems to me that what is exercising Boris is the prospect of the City losing Euro business. The French (Noyer) are making rude noises, but the real threat is perhaps Germany having now adopted the Euro as the new Deutschmark and their determination to handle all Euro business in Frankfurt.

That would fit with Germany's more than a century of playing beggar my neighbour with currencies, inflations and even the Weimar collapse - determined not to pay a penny of the Versailles settlement. Okay, I know you are laughing, but...

Germany was even more horribly humiliated after the 2nd World War, even by the Americans, who much prefer the Germans to the French (who doesn't?)

Max Kaiser says he has moved his programme base from Paris to London, because "Germany has declared war on London" and his expectation is that the City will be demolished within 18 months (I'll post the link if anyone wants it)

Both the US and Europe have been happy for 100 years to have all their currency dirty work offshored to London, but as Mervyn King reminds us "banks are global until they fail, then they are national." Boris and Dave want it every way - Euro corporate statism plus City criminal profits and supremacy. Boris is mumbling because he can't get his head round it.

Thank you Richard for the reform-renegotiate scare piece, which leaves my persistent mild depression intact. And for allowing me to air my mad theory.

Yes ... it is almost as if they've been told "playtime over", and called into class to recite their lessons.

Interesting post...Ill have a gander at your link.Thanking you in anticipation.

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There are also similarities, Farage will make mistakes, big ones, Johnson will make gaffes too and in his usual lucky manner will hope to glide over them. This time around it might not happen as I think it all depends on what Johnson wants to do next.

I don't think he wants to be PM, just likes the buzz of being more popular than Cameron. And for all his political skills he is an even better writer. Being a writer post-politics will earn him vast amounts of money and be fun.

I predict he eventually will be bored and drop out of this campaign role. At this point, with his second and
final (?) term as Mayor coming to an end, he will revert to being original Boris. And then in this phase
he might be more use to the opposition than Cameron, ha, ha!

There may be useful idiots in the ranks who know no better, but I’d say the tory leadership is deliberately taking a dive. Pursuing a strategy that they know will fail, when there is a viable strategy available. They should be publicly called out on this in advance. But without media access, how ?

At last. Something that will make swathes of the population not interested in how the EU affects them, sit up and notice!

http://www.dailymail.co....on-theyre-deep-debt.html