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Boris Johnson has reduced the EU referendum to a question of 'what would Hitler do?'
He may be proving Godwin’s Law yet again, but Boris knows Winston Churchill was once dismissed as a plummy-voiced opportunist – and when the hour of truth came, he proved his nation’s saviour
Matthew Norman @IndyVoices Sunday 15 May 2016126 comments
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Adolf Hitler in Munich in the spring of 1932 Getty
Contemplating the latest droplet of Hitlerian idiocy, this one from Boris Johnson’s noble brow, all manner of laws, acronyms and Latin phrases come to mind.
Whenever anyone makes reference to the Fuhrer, you think of Godwin’s Law, which effectively states that the longer any debate (specifically on the internet) continues, the closer to 100 per cent grows the likelihood that Adolf will be cited.
Other reference points include HDS (Hitler Derangement Syndrome); “reductio ad Hitlerum”; PLMHF (Post-London Mayoral Hitler Fixation; see Kenneth Livingstone); and the general rule of thumb that regardless of the subject – EU membership, fracking, how to grow cherry tomatoes in an east-facing garden – an argument is lost the instant someone brings you-know-who out of the closet.