As Sam Elliott observes in The Big Lebowski, sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you.
For Britain’s Leave campaigners, Barack Obama’s visit was always going to be a week when the bar ate them. There’s nothing they can do to compete with Obama, either on popularity – he consistently achieves approval ratings in the high-70s in Britain – or credibility – he’s the President of the United States.
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