Erasmus – Johnson’s Berlin Wall by Robert Braban
Erasmus – Johnson’s attempt at a Berlin Wall.
In 1961 the East German regime built the Berlin Wall to protect their flawed ideology from being exposed through contact of their citizens with those in the free West.
The refusal of Johnson to allow UK young people to have the advantage of continued participation in the Erasmus programme is his personal version of the Berlin Wall; this time starting to build a Psychological barrier between democracy in the EU and nationalism in Little England.
The Berlin Wall survived and oppressed those it entrapped for almost thirty years. Johnson’s psychological barrier must not be permitted to become established and must be blocked at every attempt.
The excuse that there are ample world-wide university programmes now available is designed to give the impression that Johnson has somehow introduced new opportunities. He has not. Any opportunities now available were there in addition to Erasmus.
