Here we go

Naturally I’ve taken a sneak peak at mentions for British politicians. Here’s Obama’s first mention of @David_Cameron. Says he had a “studied informality” but that he liked him and was a good ally, though is quietly quite savage about his economic policy and austerity.

It’s The Queen for whom Obama reserves deepest praise, she: “embodied the special relationship between the US and the UK and Michele and I always loved spending time with her.”

Whatever you think of Obama’s line on Cameron’s economic policy it does undermine further the peculiar argument that Obama/Biden would be Conservatives in the UK. Misunderstands the two men and the Democrats, culturally and politically. They’d likely be Labour centrists/right.

There are plenty of Conservative politicians in the UK who would be never Trumpers and support a Biden led Democratic Party but that’s a different question.

Should note btw that Obama is actually wrong on the recession point. The UK’s “double dip” recession of 2011-12 was erased by the ONS who later revised their GDP estimates for 2012. In the end UK narrowly avoided a “double dip”, though this isn’t initially what the ONS said.