Barack Obama plans intervention in Britain's EU referendum

[MowCowWhoHow III]

Source: The Guardian

Barack Obama is planning to make “a big, public reach-out” to persuade British voters to stay inside the European Union, the chair of the US Senate foreign relations committee has revealed.

The plan emerged amid fears in Washington that the UK’s EU referendum is a dangerous gamble that could unravel with disastrous consequences for the entire continent.

His “reach out” is likely to focus on the need for the EU to stick together to combat the migration crisis and the growing threat of Russian aggression in the Baltics, Ukraine and Middle East.

But there are concerns in both Washington and London that an intervention by the US president has to be handled sensitively and could backfire unless it is pitched at the right geopolitical level.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/12/barack-obama-plans-eu-referendum-intervention

[mwrguy]

1. "the need for the EU to stick together to combat the migration crisis"

All of Europe needs to pull together to make sure that everyone settle their fair share of refugees.

[Sen. Walter Sobchak]

2. The morons who unleashed this bullshit have no idea what they have started

Britain needs the EU a whole hell of a lot more than the EU needs Britain. And the capital flight that would follow would exceed the savings from cutting a couple gypsies off welfare by a magnitude of billions.

[TubbersUK]

3. I'm with him

I'd like to keep the employment protections and human rights etc that are underpinned by the EU.

Otherwise we'll be screwed even further into the ground by our own overlapping political and business elite.

[PaulaFarrell]

4. this could backfire

I think the people who would value his opinion would vote no anyway