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Perhaps the most extraordinary development of Trump’s victory in British terms is the Tweet, from the President-elect, giving his view on who he wants as Britain’s man in Washington.
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Surely Trump should make him the US Ambassador to Britain. Or is he planning to auction off those jobs?
Seems bonkers to me to choose an ambassador who is in a different political party who plans to stand against your party at the next general election.
What does Theresa May do about this? Ignore, American Presidents may object to Britain’s choice of Ambassador to the US, but they cannot dictate who they should be.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38059623
If we bend the knee we'll always be a supplicant.
But Hillary said the same. “I will stop any trade deal that kills jobs or holds down wages – including the Trans-Pacific Partnership,” she said. “I oppose it now, I’ll oppose it after the election, and I’ll oppose it as president.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/20/trump-clinton-free-trade-policies-tpp
Elizabeth Warren perhaps?
BTW I understand what you mean but it's amusing to think of Fillon as "elite" compared to MLP. He is from a middle-class family and grew up in a countryside village of 3000 inhabitants.
Marine Le Pen was born in Neuilly (the poshest suburb of Paris) from a millionnaire family and has lived 46 years of her life in the most famous super-VIP gated community in France. And of course she literally inherited the family buisiness.
Edit: I see Kim Darroch took over earlier this year. I suppose his degree in Zoology might help...
The only good news from all of this is that Farage's cuddle-up-close to the Donald totally and utterly discredits him as a serious political figure. Not that he was widely seen that way before, of course.
He has emotional ties to this country, respects Brexit, and detests the EU, but he will always act in his interests first.
The key thing we need from him is a bilateral trade deal. He knows this, it's just a question of how best he can be influenced (if at all)
can't they afford briefcases or something? or ...perhaps they did it on purpose?
He's trolling May, testing her, and doing a marginal favour for someone who could be useful in future. Don't think it says anything about his views of the UK (although don't forget that countries have interests, not allies)
https://twitter.com/mark1957/status/797092079532994560
Now Trump does this and their response is "deal with it"
The "this is not the way we do things, old chap," will probably be the UK government reaction. But funny, coming from the left too.
@TCPoliticalBetting Security quite important right now! But Ambassadors can turn their hand to anything. They have juniors to deal with details. Their role is to build relationships with the key players, to gather intelligence, assess situations and convey messages. Not to negotiate trade deals
I cannot see the British public and media being very welcoming.
Trump is playing a game on foreign affairs. It's legitimate but the right response is to ignore his "advice" (No 10 responded about right)
The real danger is not that Farage gets made Ambassador but that he acts as some sort of unofficial advisor claiming to speak for Britain and undermining whatever our government tries to do.
A lesson to May not to assume that Trump's election will be any sort of benefit to Britain.
Trump will act in his own interests and those of the US (as he conceives them) and only those. In that he will be no different to any other US President. It has always been thus. It's long past the time for Britain to rid itself of the delusion that it is owed any sort of special favours by the US or that its President will help us just because he plays golf here or whatever.
"Hah-Hah-Hah!
The New York Post reported:
Donald Trump scolded media big shots during an off-the-record Trump Tower sitdown on Monday, sources told The Post.
“It was like a f–ing firing squad,” one source said of the encounter.
“Trump started with [CNN chief] Jeff Zucker and said ‘I hate your network, everyone at CNN is a liar and you should be ashamed,’ ” the source said.
“The meeting was a total disaster. The TV execs and anchors went in there thinking they would be discussing the access they would get to the Trump administration, but instead they got a Trump-style dressing down,” the source added...
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/11/trumps-media-meeting-set-brought-one-room-blasted-away/
More here
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-11-21/these-mainstream-media-anchors-just-went-record-meeting-trump
The point is that Trump is not going to be as close an ally as past Presidents... hopes of a trade deal on anything like reasonable terms with USA seem fanciful...
Good thing we have got such good relationships in Europe then really...
Do you really think the US public are going to appreciate their head of state behaving like this long term?
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/153480921421/persuasion-versus-populism
Realpolitik is fine. We will need to build as good a relationship as we can with the US but we need to be clear - and in public if need be - that we have certain values and that white supremacy, anti-semitism etc are not part of them.
It is Roman Saturnalia, when the ordinary rules of life were subverted as masters served their slaves, and the offices of state were held by slaves.
there's only the cacophony of two orchestras tuning up atm.
Trump bears grudges and isn't someone to forget a slight, or who said it.
The silence of so many right wingers on here and elsewhere about Trump's embrace of white supremacists, when they rightly attacked Corbyn for his tolerance and even embrace of anti-Semitism, is deafening. Turns out those attacks on Corbyn were all about partisanship, not principle.
Caligula appointing his horse as Consul is more like it.
Our new Man in Washington was still finding where the coffee machine was, whilst no doubt sending back intelligence on what kind of a President Hillary Clinton would be for the UK. I suspect the advice to HMG was as off the mark as all the rest of the punditry. So he is starting with the only advantage over an Ambassador Farage of knowing where the coffee machine is.
But Farage? A Diplomat? Arf......
Nigel Farage is an opposition politician! Would David Cameron have appointed Ed Miliband as US ambassador?
It's no wonder that Trump and Farage get on - they're cut from the same cloth.
But I can't imagine the new ambassador got much - if any - face time with either of the candidates in the last three months.