Michael Gove parodied the BSE campaign to stay in the EU:
“The City of London
would become a ghost down, our manufacturing industries would be sanctioned
more punitively than even communist North Korea, decades would pass before a
single British Land Rover or Mr Kipling cake could ever again be sold in France
and in the meantime our farmers would have been driven from the land by poverty
worse than the Potato Famine.
To cap it all, an
alliance of Vladimir Putin, Marine Le Pen and Donald Trump, emboldened by our
weakness, would, like some geopolitical equivalent of the Penguin, Catwoman and
the Joker, be liberated to spread chaos worldwide and subvert our
democracy.
I sometimes think that
the In campaign appears to be operating to a script written by George RR Martin
and Stephen King. Brexit would mean a combination of A Feast for Crows
and Misery.
It’s a deeply
pessimistic view of the British people’s potential, and a profoundly negative
vision of the future which just isn’t rooted in reality. The idea that if
Britain voted to leave the European Union we would instantly become some sort
of hermit kingdom – a North Atlantic North Korea, only without that country’s
fund of international good will – it’s a fantasy, it’s a phantom, it’s a great
grotesque patronising and preposterous Peter Mandelsonian conceit, that
imagines that the people of this country are mere children, capable of
being frightened into obedience by conjuring up new bogeymen every night.”
Nice one.
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