It really gets my goat when europhobes try to liken the aims of the EU to the goals of people Hitler. They say that the european union is just another way to achieve Hitlers ambition to unite europe under one government. It is a very disingenuous scare tactic, either designed to mislead people or betraying a severe lack of understanding. The EU is not about totalitarianism; it is about forging a single framework of rules which people across the continent can work under. It is about safeguarding people’s rights, not taking them away. It’s about working together towards common goals, not imposing the will of one over the many. And nobody is interested in imposing some paneuropean monoculture upon everyone. Thus I ask, how dare people like Boris Johnson try to invoke hitler to further their goals? They are the ones seeking to impose their will over many: to conservatives like him, european rules get in the way of unfettered neoliberalism; it gives people – especially members of minorities – rights which people like Johnson and farage would rather they didn’t have. For people who want the rich to be able to exploit the poor and the strong to dominate the weak, of course a body like the EU would be a hinderance. It was founded, in part, to safeguard rights across europe which they would rather they did not have. Thus for Johnson or anyone to try to liken the EU to the goals of hitler is utterly hypocritical. The reverse is true: they are the ones who seek to dominate, who think that social darwinism should be unleashed, who think that minorities are a burden to society. Outers have far more in common with hitler than the EU does.