BRITS TO OBAMA

Brits to Obama: 'Sticking your hooter in' British politics is unwelcome.

BY PEACE NEWS REPORTER

DAVID CAMERON
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BY PEACE NEWS REPORTER

(PEACE NEWS)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.

BY PEACE NEWS REPORTER