[Barack Obama] is the first president you’ve had whom we [British] haven’t felt we have a kind of natural understanding…This is the first time, as a Brit, that I look at the White House and I think, actually, you know, we could be anybody…Obama downgraded us to “one of our allies”…right out there with Honduras,” says Daniel Hannan, author of The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America.