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Originally Posted by Taf
TTIP, or at least true understanding of the secret negotiations that are going on between the USA and EU mandarins, would really put a spanner in the works of the pro-EU groups.
The biggest threat to us in the UK since all-out war. And a big reason why the USA wants us to stay part of the EU.
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I tend to think that when the US tells us we should do something it's mainly because it best suits their long term goals, not necessarily ours. Those things are not mutually exclusive of course but the 'special relationship' stuff is the sort of guff you hear when American VIP's visit the UK and tell us how it's their favourite place, blah, blah, blah before heading off to Paris and telling them exactly the same thing.
It's guff, designed to make us feel better and them $$$'s and you can bet that if the UK getting out of the EU better suited the US, they'd soon tell us. Obama has no love of the UK so his 'advice' ought to be treated with scepticism.
With the Hispanic influence in the US growing rapidly, I don't see the UK and US getting any closer politically.