Brits To Obama: 'Sticking Your Hooter In' British Politics Is Unwelcome (repost of locked LBN OP)
Brits To Obama: 'Sticking Your Hooter In' British Politics Is Unwelcome
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Source: CNN
London (CNN)Not everyone in Britain, it is safe to say, welcomes the intervention of an American president in what's viewed as the internal politics of the United Kingdom.
In a visit to London, President Barack Obama has argued in an opinion piece that Britons should vote to stay in the European Union rather than pull out. The UK has scheduled a nationwide vote on the issue for June 23.
And some Britons have reacted to Obama's advice in what they see as an internal British matter in a way that echoes the words of the American author Ring Lardner: " 'Shut up,' he explained."
London Mayor Boris Johnson, writing for The Sun newspaper, implied that Obama was a hypocrite because Washington would never surrender so much power to Brussels, the EU's de-facto capital.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/22/europe/obama-british-reaction/
Bjornsdotter
(6,123 posts)...let the Brits handle it.
Oldenuff
(582 posts)He also desperately wants the US in the TPP..
As soon as I saw that Pres Obama was heading to England...I knew what he was up to.Just doing the doing the bidding of the global elite.I agree with the Brits tho.Interventionism is why the US has a terrorism issue.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)resenting this are the short-sighted churlish yahoos who want to leave. Many are such dinosaurs (no matter what age they are) that they actually believe that the global British Empire still exists. Reality check: it doesn't.
If the US and the UK really do have a "special" partnership, then President Obama has not only a right but a duty, to say what he said. In fact, there are many who believe that Cameron asked him to. See, e.g.: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/apr/22/cameron-could-not-have-asked-for-more-from-obamas-brexit-warning
Prsident Obama spoke nothing but common sense - where common sense is sorely needed.
T_i_B
(14,738 posts)Obama is absolutely right in stating that leaving the EU is an incredibly bad idea.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)having its cake and eating it too.
It's part of the European Union, but is not part of the Eurozone, nor is it part of Schengen - thus avoiding two of the more problematic EU pillars. It basically has a special status already and the churlish yahoos like Johnson and the UKIP stalwarts do not have the common sense to realize that!
T_i_B
(14,738 posts)Too many people in this country don't understand the benefits of free trade and think only of those beastly foreigners the tabloid press tell them scare stories about to sell newspapers.
BlueMTexpat
(15,369 posts)for all of the forward thinkers.