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America would never join anything like the EU. Yet they urge us to stay

The average Trump voter doesn’t like Congress, but would hate an expensive international parliament even more

20 February 2016

9:00 AM

20 February 2016

9:00 AM

So the US Secretary of State, John Kerry, thinks his country has a ‘profound interest… in a very strong United Kingdom staying in a strong EU’, and President Obama is planning to join in campaigning for the Remainders too. They say this not because they think it is good for us, but because it is in their interests that we influence Europe in a free-trading, Atlanticist direction.

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