Brexit: Boris Johnson delivers major speech

Brexit: Boris Johnson delivers major speech; Boris Johnson MP (Foreign Secretary) speech SOT - We will continue to be Europeans both practically and psychologically. Claims we will be more insular preposterous. More Brits in Australia than whole of EU. More than a million that go to Thailand that our consular services deal with, with things they get up... British people make 71 million foreign visits per year, we will continue to go to cheapo flights on stag parties to ancient cities, no reason we cannot retire to Spain or continue world of academic co-operation. For those who really want to make Britain less insular... the answer is not to submit forever to EU legal order, but how we can undo physical separation. Channel tunnel narrow, you can see this moat is an overgrown river, Britain and Holland used to be joined. - In 1986 Thatcher had the vision to heal the gap. Incredible 5th and 6th economies of world should be connected by one railway line. It's not about shutting ourselves off, it's about going global. It's about continuing the astonishing revolution in arts, sports. As a result of our history and global links I refuse to accept it is un-British to leave EU. Expression of legitimate desire by people. Not some reactionary Faragist concept. Fulfil idealism of John Stuart-Mill himself, only nation could legitimate actions of the state, national solidarity would make them co-operate more. There is a good reason for insisting on national solidarity, government requires tremendous impositions, obedience to laws, need to know who is making them and to what motives, How we can remove them. The trouble with the EU, for all it's idealism, there is no demos. However others in the EU may feel, the British have common sympathies. One of the reasons why we in the UK have difficulties adapting to concept of EUis that EU law is a special type of law. There to achieve political goal, Aim is to create overarching European state, British politicians have always f...