Boris Johnson, Michael Gove, Daniel Hannan, Nigel Farage, Frank Underwood. Soort van dan. Want de Amerikaanse president uit het fictieve paralel universum heeft maar weinig goeds te zeggen over de EU uit ons universum. "So where will Europe be in ten years time? Without borders, without a coherent currency, without leadership? With the driving sense of purpose of a pilchard? If I were a Brit I wonder if Id be more afraid to stay in the EU than to leave. Its always easy to whip up a feeling of fear about change, but it infects mostly those who sit in comfort and dine on fois gras. (...) Brussels is a bit of a used bus ticket. Anyway I dont ride buses. There was a time when Europeans rode chariots and sailed ships, had ambition, ideas, built great empires. They had two thousand years as the centre of the world but ask yourself. When did Europe last peel any potatoes? Their leaders have sat so long on their marble thrones that not only have their balls turned to concrete but their minds, too." Tuurlijk, 't is maar fictie. Maar wel een fictie waar vanaf morgen weer een miljoenmiljard stemgerechtigde Britten naar kijken.