The current President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, is going to visit the United Kingdom in April partially in order to try to persuade Britons to vote in favour of remaining in the European Union. I’d like to take this opportunity to respectfully ask President Obama to shut his left wing cake-hole about the subject of Britain’s relationship with the EU. It is up to the British people and the British people alone, to decide whether or not we continue to join ourselves to a rapidly imploding and increasingly authoritarian European Union. Only we the citizens and subjects of these Islands can decide whether we decline along with the rest of the EU nations or if we have our own British Revolution and leave the EU and embrace the rest of the world.
If President Obama was a statesman of stature, a president like Kennedy or Reagan or LBJ or Wilson or Truman or Eisenhower, or any of the other great men who’ve led the USA since 1776, then his visit, and his words, may mean something, and may even be persuasive. However this is President Obama we are talking about here, and his achievements whilst in office are in no way comparable to those of his predecessors. His only real positive achievement in my view has been to make ex President Carter’s term in office look like a glowing beacon of success by comparison.
President Obama has unfortunately squandered the goodwill that he had from both inside and outside the USA, when he came into office. He has presided over a disastrous foreign policy. His term in office has seen the rise of ISIS and other Islamic terror organisations, and President Obama is too cowardly (or malevolent depending on your point of view) to describe the terror threat as ‘Islamic’, which it plainly is. He has also caused tension between the one true ally that the USA has in the Middle East, Israel, by his crass handling of the Israel/Palestine conflict.
At home his healthcare ‘reform’ has cost millions of dollars, and has reduced the choice that many Americans have in healthcare. His healthcare policies have cost a significant number of US citizens extra in insurance premiums, and may ultimately not even do what it was intended to, which is to increase the number of US citizens able to access quality healthcare.
On President Obama’s watch, a US Ambassador and his security detail were horribly murdered in Libya and the details of this attack are still having political reverberations in the USA. The political correctness that has characterised his reign, has, by forbidding US immigration services from asking enough awkward questions of Islamic immigrants, cost the lives of US citizens in the San Bernardino massacre. It is also sadly likely that his policies in this area will cost the lives of many more Americans in the near future.
President Obama’s diplomatic technique could be summed up in one simple British phrase, which is ‘like a bull in a china shop’. He has insulted the United Kingdom by his return of the bust of Sir Winston Churchill and yet he still expects to be listened to by British citizens on the subject of the European Union. President Obama doesn’t seem to have learned the lesson that if you crap on someone then they are unlikely to want to trust you in the future.
I don’t like having to slag off American presidents, I really don’t, normally you don’t get to do the job of American President without having something really good going for you, and also because I believe that the office of President should be respected for what it is. I’m an admirer of American culture, and I respect the ingenuity, hard work, bravery and enthusiasm for life that has characterised the Americans I’ve known. I’m also mindful of the fact that what little freedom we now posses in the UK was partially bought for us by the sacrifices of American service personnel, too many of whom did not return to the land of their birth or adoption and are buried in American military cemeteries over here. I especially admire those bits of the Constitution that those of us in less enlightened nations wish we had, such as the First and Second Amendments. The mere fact that I can write what I write, and not end up in a British prison cell because of what I write, is purely down to the fact that this blog is published in the United States and therefore I am the beneficiary to some extent of the first amendment to the Constitution. If it had not been for this amendment to the US Constitution I would have long since been banged up inside one of Her Majesty’s Prisons for what is laughingly called ‘hate speech’ (in reality speech that Britain’s Muslims don’t like).
On the odd occasion when I do comment on American politics or American culture, I try to do so respectfully and not get all pointy fingered about things, after all there are plenty of things that Britain needs to sort out before we criticise our American cousins. Maybe it’s time for President Obama to take a similar attitude towards the United Kingdom, and not try to bully us into voting to remain in a European Union that is devastatingly hostile to the interests of Britain and its people.
There are only two consolations that I can get from the fact that President Obama is embarking on his bully-pulpit visit to the United Kingdom. The first is that he is he going to face demonstrations from Britons angry at this unwanted and unnecessary intervention in a matter that is the concern of Britons. The second is that his pro-EU stance is going to piss off many Britons so badly that it will motivate them to vote for Brexit.
Neither the United States nor the United Kingdom need the European Union in order to be friends (sometimes critical friends) and allies. We didn’t need the EU to fight the Germans in two world wars and the EU was virtually non existent as a positive factor in keeping Western Europe free from the scourges of Communism, that was achieved by the American-led NATO. For President Obama to campaign for Britain to continue to be a member of the EU is about as helpful as throwing a drowning man, a lifebelt made out of Lead.
To conclude: I’d like to ask my American readers (of which there are lots) to not be too offended by my comments on President Obama’s forthcoming visit. I’d also like to ask them how would the American people like it if unelected bureaucrats in somewhere like Brasilia or Mexico City or Caracas were running their economy, dictating to them how they live their lives, and Old Dishface aka David Cameron the British Prime Minister told you to surrender yet more of your freedom to these distant foreign powers? You wouldn’t like it and neither do we Britons like it when someone like President Obama does something similar to us.
President Obama is welcome in the UK as a representative of a friend and an ally, but not as a bully telling us to do something that will ultimately end up destroying our nation.
Link
Daily Telegraph article on the forthcoming visit by President Obama to the UK.
