Gove and Johnson

Michael Gove paints a picture of Britain as a “progressive beacon” outside the EU. There is nothing “progressive” about Gove. He belongs to the intellectually dogmatic radical right. Let loose, he will privatise everything in sight. Johnson is of the emotionally opportunistic radical right. Beside them, David Cameron’s pragmatic right looks positively desirable. The idea they can legitimately speak for a broad spectrum of society is absurd. They exploit inflammatory issues to draw in sectors of society with which they have nothing in common.