Boris Johnson is wrong – we cannot claim to love European culture whether we leave the EU. Some of the greatest artists ever to work in Britain were migrants from the continent,so when will the Stay camp start playing the culture card?Boris Johnson is no philistine. He has written approximately the ancient world and eloquently protested the destruction of Palmyra. In his recent declaration of British independence in the Telegraph, he evidently wanted to produce it clear that leaving the EU implies no disdain for European art, or literature,music, architecture or, or of course,that glorious food. Right at the top of his article, he praises Europe as “the domestic of the greatest and richest culture in the world, or to which Britain is and will be an eternal contributor”.
Loving Europe’s culture,claims Johnson, has nothing to finish with accepting what he sees as the anti-democratic ambitions of the EU: rejecting Brussels does not imply any kind of narrow-minded suspicion of foreigners or their art. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com