Back in the 1970s, Henry Kissinger is reported to have said, "When I want to speak to Europe, whom should I call?" The story may be apocryphal but it highlights the fact that US foreign policy wants to deal with one central authority in Europe, rather than have the inconvenience of dealing with individual, independent nation states.

After the Second World War, the USA funded, to the tune of many millions of dollars, the European Movement, which covertly worked towards creating a United States of Europe. The release of declassified documents in 2000 showed that the "American Committee for a United Europe" was, in fact, a front organisation for the CIA. The USA wanted a bulwark against the Soviet threat, and as stated above, the convenience of dealing with one central political power in Europe. There is evidence that the CIA also clandestinely funded the Remain side in the 1975 British Referendum.

America is primarily concerned with its own perceived national interests, and not Britain's. We know that the USA has interfered in the domestic politics of many nations around the world - so why would they not interfere with ours? We should also recall that President Obama has called for Turkey to become a member of the EU, which would invite another 77 million potential migrants to come to Britain, should they so wish.

That is evidently not in the British national interest.