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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Fri Apr 22, 2016, 05:56 PM Apr 2016

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/

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Brits To Obama: 'Sticking Your Hooter In' British Politics Is Unwelcome (repost of locked LBN OP) (Original Post) Purveyor Apr 2016 OP

I have to agree Bjornsdotter Apr 2016 #1

Of course he wants them to stay in the EU Oldenuff Apr 2016 #2

Those who are most churlish in BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #3

This is the thing T_i_B Apr 2016 #4

The UK already is in the position of BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #5

You try explaining this to "Leave" supporters T_i_B Apr 2016 #6

I'm keeping my fingers very crossed BlueMTexpat Apr 2016 #7

Bjornsdotter

(6,123 posts)

1. I have to agree

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 06:11 PM

Apr 2016

...let the Brits handle it.

Oldenuff

(582 posts)

2. Of course he wants them to stay in the EU

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Fri Apr 22, 2016, 08:30 PM

Apr 2016

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)

3. Those who are most churlish in

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 07:04 AM

Apr 2016

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

Obama punctured the leave argument that outside one of the world’s trading blocs the UK, as the fifth largest economy in the world, was going to be better placed to strike new trade deals.

Prsident Obama spoke nothing but common sense - where common sense is sorely needed.

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)

4. This is the thing

Reply to BlueMTexpat (Reply #3)

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 12:01 PM

Apr 2016

Obama is absolutely right in stating that leaving the EU is an incredibly bad idea.

BlueMTexpat

(15,369 posts)

5. The UK already is in the position of

Reply to T_i_B (Reply #4)

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 12:05 PM

Apr 2016

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)

6. You try explaining this to "Leave" supporters

Reply to BlueMTexpat (Reply #5)

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 12:19 PM

Apr 2016

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)

7. I'm keeping my fingers very crossed

Reply to T_i_B (Reply #6)

Sat Apr 23, 2016, 12:24 PM

Apr 2016

for all of the forward thinkers.

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