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‘Bizarre’ EU court has ‘slipped its human moorings,’ Boris Johnson says

By Lewis Crofts ( March 23, 2016, 11:51 GMT | Insight) -- Boris Johnson, London’s prominent anti-EU mayor, has equated the Court of Justice to the wayward supercomputer HAL 9000 in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” saying it has “slipped its human moorings” and adopted “bizarre” rulings. Johnson suggested that other free-trade areas around the world had no overarching judicial system and that there would be no need for a long period of “uncertainty” if Britain left the union.Boris Johnson, London’s prominent anti-EU mayor, has equated the Court of Justice to the wayward supercomputer HAL 9000 in the movie “2001: A Space Odyssey,” saying it has “slipped its human moorings” and adopted “bizarre” rulings....

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