Vaulting Ambition

First we had 'Project Fear' during Scotland's independence referendum, followed by 'Project Boris' it appears in the forthcoming vote to decide whether the UK's remains a member of the European Union.

But Shakespeare put his finger on the kind of overweening, personal ambition now on display from Boris Johnson, the outgoing London Mayor, with the following words from his famous 'Scottish' play:    
Macbeth:

I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,

And falls on th'other. . . .

Well said, sir.

Bojo Makes His Play (21/02/16)

So Bojo finally makes his play on Europe which is all about improving his chances of becoming the next Conservative leader, if you ask me, given what the London Mayor had to say recently in the columns of The Telegraph newspaper.

"The choice is really quite simple. In favour of staying, it is in Britain’s geo-strategic interests to be pretty intimately engaged in the doings of a continent that has a grim 20th-century history, and whose agonies have caused millions of Britons to lose their lives. History shows that they need us. Leaving would be widely read as a very negative signal for Europe. It would dismay some of our closest friends, not least the eastern Europeans for whom the EU has been a force for good: stability, openness, and prosperity."