AS USUAL, the British public turned the other cheek to suck up to President Obama and his wife on their recent visit – forgetting all he has said and done to our country in the past three years.

Without a shadow of a doubt, Barack Obama has been the most anti-British president in modern American history.

The special relationship has been significantly downgraded, and at times humiliated under his presidency, which has displayed a shocking disregard for America’s most important partner and strategic ally.

Consider the following points, which have made me give nothing but disdain for Obama.

l Siding with Argentina over the Falklands.

l Downgrading the British and Americans’ special relationship Despite the UK being the only major reliable ally when the chips are down.

l Calling France America’s strongest ally.

l Supporting a federal Europe and undercutting British sovereignty.

l Betraying Britain to appease Moscow over the new START Treaty.

l Carrying out a relentless campaign against Britain’s largest oil company in the wake of the Gulf oil spill was one of the most damaging episodes in US-UK relations in recent years.

l Ordering the removal of Winston Churchill’s bust from the Oval Office.

l Treating Gordon Brown abysmally when he visited the White House, by not allowing him a Rose Garden press conference or dinner and then giving him a pile of DVDs as a present – DVDs that would not even work in the UK.

l Obama’s State Department stating, “There’s nothing special about Britain. You’re just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn’t expect special treatment”.

l Undermining British influence in Nato.

l Obama did not bow to the Queen in his last visit, but instead gave her a nod. But the next day he gave a full-blooded and deeply reverential half-body bow to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia at the G20.

Why people were so happy to see this man on British soil and then suck up to him, I will never know.

John J Monaghan, Cotman Close, Abingdon