What sort of imbecile is this guy?
Makes our pollies look like statesmen and Obama look like a genius
Cameron claims Brexit will raise risk of world war
SAM COATES, PHILIP ALDRICKTHE TIMESMAY 10, 2016 12:00AM
British Prime Minister David Cameron in Peterborough, central England.
David Cameron was poised last night to raise the spectre of war if Britain votes to exit the EU as he asks whether leaving is a risk worth taking.
The British Prime Minister was expected to invoke two world wars and the Balkans conflict as he made his case for the EU, saying international co-operation helped to end decades-long conflicts.
Both of the campaigns in the referendum are relaunching, amid concern at No 10 that support for leaving the EU remains stubbornly high. It comes as campaigning moves into the final stage, with postal votes reaching households in less than three weeks.
Chancellor George Osborne said yesterday a Treasury report would show Brexit would cause house prices to plunge and mortgage costs to rise. It also emerged that banks were examining disaster scenarios to ensure they can withstand the fallout from a vote to leave on June 23.
In other developments, Michael Gove, chairman of Vote Leave and the Justice Secretary, was attacked by Juergen Maier, British chief executive of Siemens, after saying Britain should be outside the single market. Mr Maier tweeted that it was “staggering that the Leave campaign have suggested we should walk away from the largest free-trade single market in the world”.
Jonathan Evans, former director-general of spy agency MI5, and John Sawers, the former chief of MI6, said Britain benefited from the exchange of information with other EU countries as a member of the bloc. They were supported in a letter to The Times by Alex Carlile QC, former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation.
The UK Statistics Authority released figures showing that 699,000 school-aged children — one in 15 nationally — have a parent who is a citizen of another EU country. Critics said this put unsustainable pressure on schools.
Former London mayor Boris Johnson was expected to attack the idea that the single market was a force for good.
Mr Cameron was to say overnight: “Isolationism has never served this country well. Whenever we turn our back on Europe, sooner of later we come to regret it. We have always had to go back in, and always at much higher cost.
“The serried rows of white headstones in lovingly tended Commonwealth war cemeteries stand as silent testament to the price this country has paid to help restore peace and order in Europe.
“Can we be so sure that peace and stability on our continent are assured beyond any shadow of doubt? Is that a risk worth taking? I would never be so rash as to make that assumption.”
The latest YouGov poll, conducted at the end of last week, has 42 per cent of people voting to remain, 40 per cent to leave, 13 per cent not knowing, and 6 per cent undecided.
The Britain Stronger in Europe campaign was expected to release a video overnight of four World War II veterans warning that Britain should stay in the EU.
The Prime Minister was to go on to suggest Winston Churchill would have disapproved of Brexit. He will say that Britain made a “lone stand” in 1940 when it “stood as a bulwark against a new dark age of tyranny”.
Vote Leave said Churchill had never accepted Britain’s membership of a political union. It pointed to a Commons speech in May 1953 in which he said: “We are not members of the European defence community, nor do we intend to be merged in a federal European system.”
In a boost for No 10, Britain’s top lenders said Brexit could cause house prices to fall, economic growth to slow and borrowing costs to rise.
The Bank of England has ordered financial institutions to prepare for market mayhem after the poll, as part of Brexit contingency planning.
One executive said: “The stress tests include rate cuts and a fall in house prices by around a third ... A Brexit vote could be a catalyst for some of this.”
The Times
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