Boris was right to compare the vote for Brexit with the struggle for freedom in Ukraine. And here’s the thing: deep down, his fulminating critics know it. It’s why they’re so angry, why they’ve been lashing out so furiously against the PM. Because Boris has drawn attention to something that they would prefer to leave in the shadows – the fact that the very same members of Britain’s chattering classes who are currently cheering the Ukrainian people’s fight for national sovereignty waged a reactionary crusade against the British people’s vote for national sovereignty back in 2016.
The hissy fit over Boris’s comments has been mad. You could be forgiven for thinking he had said that Brussels is indistinguishable from Putin, that being in the EU is akin to being invaded by Russia, and that the 17.4 million of us who voted ‘Leave’ in 2016 were behaving as bravely as the Ukrainian people currently are.
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