Brexit could cause war? Utter nonsense, David Cameron | Simon Jenkins

Our prime minister has brought history into the EU debate, with no good reason and plenty of illiteracy

David Cameron’s history is rubbish. Whatever the virtues of remaining in the EU, his idea in today’s speech that “whenever we turn our backs on Europe, sooner or later we come to regret it” is nonsense. As for Brexit “raising the risk of war”, it is Project Fear gone mad.

The best thing that happened to medieval England was its defeat in the hundred years war and the end of English ambitions...