Obama calls on British people not to vote to leave the EU

Obama calls on British people not to vote to leave the EU

U.S. Admiral Barack Obama fabricated an animated address on Friday for Britain to abide in the European Union, adage associates had abstract Britain's abode in the apple and fabricated the affiliation stronger and added apparent looking.

Fearful that a British avenue could abate the West, Obama accustomed in London to acclaim Britain's EU associates which he said had helped accomplish the apple freer, richer and bigger able to accouterment aggregate from Russian assailment to terrorism.

Praising Britain's "outsized" access in the world, Obama invoked the interlinked history of the two countries and the tens of bags of Americans lying in European war graves as his acumen for speaking as "a friend" on the June 23 referendum.

"The European Union doesn't abstinent British access - it magnifies it," he wrote in an commodity placed on page 20 of the eurosceptic Daily Telegraph bi-weekly beneath the banderole "As your friend, I acquaint you that the EU makes Britain even greater."

"The United States sees how your able articulation in Europe ensures that Europe takes a able attitude in the world, and keeps the EU open, apparent looking, and carefully affiliated to its allies on the added ancillary of the Atlantic".

Obama is due to accommodated U.S. admiral cadre and families afore a cafeteria at Windsor Castle with Queen Elizabeth, who acclaimed her 90th altogether on Thursday, and her bedmate Prince Philip.

Obama is appointed to authority talks after with Prime Minister David Cameron, followed by a account conference.

Campaigners for Britain's EU membership, including Cameron, who is arch the "In" campaign, will acceptable Obama's intervention, which led account broadcasts on British television.

But the president's comments drew contemptuousness from opponents of Britain's EU membership.

New York-born London Mayor Boris Johnson, who active the "Out" campaign, said that he did not wish to be lectured by Americans about EU associates and that the United States would never aspect such a alteration of sovereignty.

"For the United States to acquaint us in the UK that we accept to abandonment ascendancy of so abundant of our capitalism -- it is a amazing archetype of the assumption of do-as-I-say-but-not-as-I-do," Johnson wrote in the Sun newspaper.

"It is incoherent. It is inconsistent, and yes it is absolute hypocritical," Johnson said.

Opinion acclamation announce that British voters are aptitude appear the "In" affected but abounding abide undecided. "In" campaigners are anxious that adolescent voters may not about-face out to vote.

"STICK TOGETHER"

The U.S. government, and abounding U.S. banks and companies, abhorrence a Brexit would could cause bazaar turmoil, abate the ascendancy of its arch European ally, aching London's all-around banking hub status, attenuate the EU and abate Western security.

"Now is a time for accompany and allies to stick together," Obama said. "Together, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union accept angry centuries of war in Europe into decades of peace, and formed as one to accomplish this apple a safer, bigger place."

Cameron has said that this is no time for Britain to bead out of the club it abutting in 1973, abnormally in the face of what he agreement Russian Admiral Vladimir Putin's aggression.

Asked about Obama's views, Cameron ahead told the parliament, "Personally I accept we should accept to admonition from accompany and added countries and I attempt to acquisition the baton of any affable country who thinks we should leave."

Ahead of a 2014 Scottish vote on independence, Obama said he hoped Britain "remains strong, able-bodied and united", a animadversion that was accustomed by unionist politicians in London.

For Britain's abutting ally, EU associates amplifies British influence, facilitates barter for U.S. companies and strengthens the 28-member affiliation that Washington angle as a colonnade of adherence in the post-World War Two era.

Opponents of the EU, abounding of whom acclaim the U.S. alliance, accept said that associates has shackled Britain to the body of a bootless German-dominated agreement in European integration, and that Britain, if freed, could advance as a sole trader.

Nigel Farage, a arresting adversary of associates as baton of Britain's UK Ability Party, alleged Obama the a lot of anti-British American admiral to date.

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