US warns Britain against leaving European Union

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David Cameron?s stated strategy on securing a looser UK-EU relationship to be laid out in a major speech within weeks. Photograph: Kerim Okten/EPA


The Obama administration issued a direct challenge to David Cameron over Europe, on Wednesday when it warned of the dangers of holding a referendum on Britain's membership of the EU.

A senior US official questioned the merits of holding a referendum as the prime minister's campaign to reset the terms of Britain's EU membership also came under assault from Brussels and Dublin.

With just weeks to go until Cameron delivers a landmark speech in which he is expected to promise to hold a referendum on a "new settlement" for Britain in the EU, the US assistant secretary for European affairs warned that "referendums have often turned countries inwards".

"We welcome an outward-looking European Union with Britain in it. We benefit when the EU is unified, speaking with a single voice, and focused on our shared interests around the world and in Europe," Philip Gordon said during a visit to London, adding: "We want to see a strong British voice in that European Union. That is in the American interest."


Link: US warns Britain against leaving European Union | World news | The Guardian

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Seeing as we're the usa's bitch were gonna have to stay then, right.


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"We welcome an outward-looking European Union with Britain in it. We benefit when the EU is unified, speaking with a single voice, and focused on our shared interests around the world and in Europe," Philip Gordon said during a visit to London, adding: "We want to see a strong British voice in that European Union. That is in the American interest."

Plenty of talk about how good it would be for the U.S.A.
They will benefit and it is in their interest that GB is in the EU, no mention of how they think it will affect GB, because they don't give a toss how it affects us as long as they are alright.
We need to get out now before the EU bankrupts Britain and we end up as the next Greece but with Thousands and Thousands of East Europeans, Bulgarians and Romanians still demanding their right to housing and benefits here and us being forced to give them preference.