Britain leaving the European Union would be like a prisoner escaping jail, London Mayor Boris Johnson has said, reports "The Telegraph".
Boris Johnson: Leaving EU would be like ‘prisoner escaping jail’
STEPANAKERT, MARCH 7, ARTSAKHPRESS: Speaking on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show Mr. Johnson hit out at the approach of the Remain camp, which has been criticized for its strategy dubbed by critics as Project Fear ahead of the in/out referendum on June 23.
The Mayor of London said: “This is like the jailer has accidentally left the door of the jail open and people can see the sunlit land beyond.
“And everybody is suddenly wrangling about the terrors of the world outside. Actually it would be wonderful. It would be a huge weight lifted from British business.”
However Mr. Johnson left himself open to criticism by conceding that leaving the EU – so-called Brexit – could lead to Britons losing their jobs.
Asked if there would be a period people would lose their jobs, Mr. Johnson replied: “It might. Well, it might or it might not and actually there are plenty of people who now think that the cost of getting out would be virtually nil and the cost of staying in would be very high.”
Mr. Johnson disclosed that he decided to campaign for Brexit after Government lawyers rejected his wording on how to assert sovereignty of Parliament and UK courts over Brussels courts.
He had submitted a form of words in the days before the end of Mr. Cameron's renegotiation to Government lawyers.
He said: "The government lawyers said – [they] just blew up. And they, you know, they said this basically voids our obligations under the 1972 European Communities Act, it doesn’t work, we can’t – and that is, I’m afraid, the reality."
Mr. Johnson insisted that Mr. Cameron's position would be secure even if the country voted to leave the EU on June 23 amid speculation he could be ousted from Number 10.
“To the best of my knowledge there is not a single EU leader in the last 20 years who has had to step down as a result of a referendum, whether on Europe or not," he said. "I think the whole thing is a load of cobblers.”
Mr. Johnson’s appearance on the Andrew Marr program on BBC1 prompted comment on Twitter, with critics claiming that Mr. Johnson was interrupted twice as many as time as the Prime Minister on the same show a fortnight ago.
Mr. Marr denied he interrupted Boris Johnson too much, insisting that it “felt like a being a fly heckling a steamroller, or twig trying to intervene with a waterfall”.
Writing in his column in The Daily Telegraph, Mr. Johnson warned that the EU leaders wanted to merge European countries into a super-state.
