I'm waiting for the USA to out-source its law making to surrounding countries.

There is something peculiar in the way the political classes in the USA are dealing with the referendum in the UK in relation to the EU.

The questions they really need to ask themselves in the USA are these.

• Would they outsource their law-making to a grouping including Canada, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru or indeed Russia which is just across the water from Alaska?
• Would they share a foreign policy with these countries?
• Would they sign up to a joint army with these countries?

Of course they wouldn’t. 

So why will Mr Obama becoming here to lecture us to do the same thing in ever increasing measure with countries that border the UK?

This all is shown in its wonderful bizarreness in an article in The Times, on the eve of President Obama's UK visit.  Some former US Treasury Secretaries say it would be "difficult" to negotiate trade agreements outside the EU.  Really?  Does the USA not have lots of different trade agreements with nations and trading blocks across the globe?  Last time I looked they did. 

Leave campaigners accused the men of double standards and "belittling Britain's place in the world.  Not content with doing down Britain's economy, No 10 are now soliciting help from across the pond," a Vote Leave spokesman said.

Indeed, sadly that is a continuing refrain from the REMAIN camp, we're not good enough. But again last time I looked, the UK was more than holding its weight on the world stage.

• Fifth largest economy in the world.
• Fourth military power in the world.
• Leading member of the G7.
• One of five permanent seat-holders on the UN Security Council.
• Leading member of NATO.

Which all suggest we are at all the top tables in all the important areas of action in the world on our own merit, not because we are a member of the EU.