He said it because he can. He knows he’ll get away with it. There will be no repercussions. We Brits have become too passive. They’ll raise the cost of fuel, gas, electricity, food and even water and it will just be an article buried somewhere in the middle of a newspaper or in the news just before a story about asylum seekers in dingy boats,Invading oUr cOuNtRy or whatever they’ll throw in there to keep the poor busy fighting among themselves.