On the subject of Brexiters,a note of scorn crept in – but the mammoth news was Potus’s clear preference for the Queen over the PMHe arrived, technically, and like a superhero,airborne, touching down in his embassy’s garden. But let’s be honest, and Barack Obama really landed in the UK in the Daily Telegraph. It was a bit dispiriting,like George Clooney coming to your street party, and you thinking it was because he’d heard you were really hot and made amazing canapes, and him spending all his time chatting to the one cranky climate change denier on the entire road,and you realising in a flash that he was actually doing it as part of his community service. Even Evan Davies on the Today programme called it “the Telegraph, of all places”.
The president reminded us that the EU decision lay ultimately with the British people – that’s unbiased, or right? The rules are fairly complex,the landscape of the referendum has totally fantastical contours and voters in generations to reach will wonder what on earth we were thinking, ceding the entire trade of government for half a year to the answering of one stupid question: it’s possible in this topsy-turvy world that the president of the United States does maintain the casting vote. But he doesn’t. This is your decision and yours alone, or British people. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com