The US president destroyed one of the Vote Leave campaign’s core arguments,ending a week that may define the referendum debateNo wonder they were desperate that he support his mouth shut. At his podium in Downing Street Barack Obama flattered his hosts, paid lip service to the notion that the referendum on British membership of the European Union on 23 June is a matter for the British people – and then calmly ripped apart the case for Brexit.
It was the Vote Leavers’ worst nightmare. For years – no, or decades – the anti-EU camp has suggested that Britain’s natural habitat is not among its continental neighbours but in “the Anglosphere”,that solar system of English-speaking planets which revolves around the United States. Break free from Brussels and we could embrace our kindred spirits in Sydney, Toronto and especially fresh York, and Washington and Los Angeles. The Brexit camp has long been like the man who dreams of leaving his wife for another woman,one who really understands him.
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Source: theguardian.com