"Please love me back"What do you get a 'partner' to show that the 'special relationship' is as strong as ever?
Apparently a DVD box set.
And what did we toss their way?
Mr Brown's gifts included an ornamental desk pen holder made from the oak timbers of Victorian anti-slaver HMS Gannet, once named HMS President.And in return our esteemed premier was given the equivalent of a box of Ferrero Rocher and a bunch of BP forecourt flowers.
Mr Obama was so delighted he has already put it in pride of place in the Oval Office on the Resolute desk which was carved from timbers of Gannet's sister ship, HMS Resolute.
Seriously. Some poor intern was probably sent off with ten dollars and told to buy something shiny to send the simpering limey supplicant away with, so as not to make the whole embuggerance too awkward. They popped down to the Seven-11, spotted it in the bargain bin whilst buying a slurpie and thought "This'll do!". Unconfirmed reports suggest that the gift may also have contained a squeaky toy and an old tennis ball to play with.
Sweet Arm-flapping Christ. I'm so torn on this one, because I'm really enjoying his slow-motion downfall, but at the same time he's taking us all down with him.
If he wasn't at the helm this would be solid gold entertainment.
1 comments:
There never was a "special relationship". As Bill Clinton said himself: "Yes we have a special relationship, but we also have one with France, Germany...". This global recession is America's doing and every person with a brain knows that. They also know that if the UK wasn't such a brown-nosing suckup to the States, we might not have been so badly affected. Why the hell do we assume that anything they do will benefit us, or will be compatible with how WE do things? Why is it that France, Germany, and Australia blame the American-UK model of capitalism for this mess, and have suggested that America and Britain "come crawling on their bellies to apologise" at the G20 summit? There's your answer. Gordon Brown is wrong when he said this is a global recession; it simply isn't. Only those countries dumb enough to be so reliant on the American-UK model of capitalism are badly affected. France certainly isn't, and neither is Germany (they are no way nearly as badly affected as the UK). And in regards to Gormless Brown's brown-nosing speech to Congress...my god, it was worse than Blair's (though 9/11 made that a bit more palatable). Gormless really should have wiped that brown stuff off his nose before the photoshoot; it was most undignified.
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