Euro-Myths

: Related:No Boris, you can't have your Brexit cake and eat it too By way of explanation, a little history, according to The Guardian. In the mid-1990s, soon after arriving in Brussels as a Europe correspondent, I was assigned to find the truth about a long-running Euro-myth: the claim that Brussels was to force Britain to call its chocolate vegelate . At that time learning about Euro-myths – smaller condoms, square strawberries, fishermen forced to wear hairnets – took up more time than explaining treaty changes. Should we be worried about the spiritual leader of the out campaign Having seen the Johnson phenomenon in gestation, I think so. The myths were usually funny, often absurd, sometimes traceable to a grain of truth, nearly always grossly distorted, or totally untrue. Usually, their creator was Boris Johnson, who had for some years worked as the Telegraph EU correspondent, famous in the press room as a shuffling, shabbily dressed fellow, with a sharp intellect, huge ambition, and a talent for constructing myths. Very often they had first appeared in the Daily Telegraph. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.