Probablement, but I don't think we've ever recalled ambassadors because we lost a commercial contract, have we? (View Post)

France will never be anybody's closest ally, certainly not ours. They have a wildly excessive view of their place in the world. They are a democratic China - needy, chippy, unpredictable and unf… (View Post)

I'd have more sympathy if you'd said that we join international organisations in a moment of neediness, despite being opposed to their ultimate aims, then are surprised when it blows up in … (View Post)

All politicians break their word. Yes Minister made a distinction between a political promise and a real promise. Cameron broke his word just as much as Johnson did, for example saying he wouldn'… (View Post)

... and, more importantly, a monumentally incompetent Chancellor and Prime Minister, many of whose screwups we're still dealing with. (View Post)