1/ Boris Johnson is spewing out lies on an epic scale. As Hannah Arendt, one of the foremost analysts of the rise of the Nazis made clear, when lies prevail in politics democracy dies. Johnson is not merely a liar, he is an enemy of democracy.
2/ And it is no accident that the Trump-Brexit right are lying on a scale that threatens democracy itself. The sociopathic rich see democracy as a parasite preying on their wealth and profits. They therefore want to cripple or destroy democracy 
3/ When destroying democracy meant something like a military coup it was an option unavailable to the kleptocratic rich. But Putin has demonstrated that democracy can be undermined from inside, until all that is left is a sham 'managed democracy'.
4/ Like the torrent of lies, Brexit is another step in weakening democracy. By making the UK a 'gateway to nowhere' Brexit will make it far more dependent on the whims of international capital, so forcing it to adopt ever more libertarian economic policies.
5/ A Tory Brexit will hard wire the UK as a country whose governments have to accommodate the demands of global capital, and therefore a country whose governments can never return to what Rees-Mogg regards as the outdated European social model.
