Posted on 07/09/2019 9:32:47 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
Foreign Secretary and Conservative Leadership Candidate Jeremy Hunt has hit out at President Trump, calling him "disrespectful" towards the Prime Minister and the UK.
Tweeting, Mr Hunt said: "@realDonaldTrump friends speak frankly so I will: these comments are disrespectful and wrong to our Prime Minister and my country.
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The Brits will circle the wagons. The ambassador probably stays.
Perhaps Trump assumed that these messages were being encouraged by Theresa May but I think Trump would have been better served to have left her as a third party out of this. In any rate his comments about how the prime minister has mishandled brixit are not new.
Jeremy Hunt is cynically demagogueing the anti-Trump attitude in England in his efforts to climb the greasy pole to 10 Downing St. I think the counterpuncher is not finished.
In July 2018, Hunt expressed fears over the UK potentially leaving the EU without a deal. He said that it would be "incredibly challenging economically" and that "It would lead to a fissure in relations which would be highly damaging for that great partnership that we have had for so many years, which has been so important in sustaining the international order."[32] In a December 2018 interview with the Daily Telegraph, he suggested the UK would "flourish and prosper" even without a deal, although he continued to back the Brexit withdrawal agreement proposed by Theresa May.[33] In March 2019 he stated that a "lot more work" was needed to get MPs to back May's deal but there were "encouraging signs" that progress was being made.[34]
May is posting about her last days.. legacy of mccain
Don’t start trouble and there won’t be any trouble.
Silly Brit.
Any country has the right to declare any diplomat "persona non grata" and expel them from the country.
So, yes, Hunt can declare that the Ambassador stays the only official UK ambassador, but Trump can still physically remove him from US soil, and he can be "US ambassador in exile", for all the good it does him.
They’d recalls bd replace him if they had any class. I think we should declare
Him persona non grata and be done with it if they won’t call him
I didn’t detect a whole lot of respect in those cables so turnabout is fair play.
My, my I guess Mister Hunt has forgotten the very public “debate” in Parliament where both Labour and Tories took shots at OUR president while deciding whether or not to ban; i.e. “forbid” the president of The United States from entering their country? I seem to recall millions of Americans being offended at that time.
Of course the British are never concerned by the offence they toss in our direction, only when they get some of it back.
With friends likes these...etc.
We dont need close ties with the UK to learn from them. It serves as the best example of how a country is lost to the left. They are beyond the point of return or repair.
90% of British politicians and diplomats give the other 10% that are honourable and decent, a bad name! (In my country, Canada, it is more like 98% to 2%!)
The real issue here is the leaking of the Ambassador’s secret cables to the Home Office. The substance is embarrassing to May and the UK, but such assessments are not unusual from Ambassadors from any country. Having served as a FSO for 28 years, I can state unequivocally that we have equally candid and frank assessments done by our diplomats abroad. It is part of their job to provide their opinions and it is often done in colorful language to draw attention to the cables at the highest level possible.
I don’t agree with the UK ambassador’s take on Trump and the functioning of his administration. The leaking of the cables ensures that he is no longer operationally effective and will need to be withdrawn sooner rather than later. The UK will not do it immediately since it sends the signal that the host country can dictate the removal of their Ambassadors who are just doing their job. Darroch could be PNG’d, but the US will allow the UK to save face and allow him to be removed after a decent interval so they can claim his early departure had nothing to do with the leaks.
The more important issue is who leaked the cables and what is their agenda. I suspect that Darroch may have been involved in the surveillance of the Trump campaign and transition teams. He may have had contacts with Brennan and Steele among others. Darroch assumed his post in 2016 so he had the opportunity to get involved. Maybe Darroch is being set up as the fall guy in anticipation that we will learn the extent of the UK government involvement in the spying on Trump and attempt to take him down.
Trump held off declassifying and releasing documents partially due to calls he received from foreign governments. He may be having second thoughts now that the UK perfidy is being exposed, i.e., Darroch’s decidedly anti-Trump views.
The Ambassador has become totally ineffective and should be removed by you, Jeremy. I suspect your bravado is just a way of defending your diplomats and a way of saving face. Don't push it too hard or Trump will PNG him.
But okay if UK rep disrespectful to Trump who is head of state. Got it.
Hunt should read his own statement.
He should then say he will, if he becomes prime minister, recall the ambassador; and, dismiss from the foreign service anybody else who was involved in leaking what should have been a confidential message.
We kicked their butts once, we can do it again.
Spoken like a true Brit wanker
A country (UK) must present a request to the host (US) to give its consent for appointment of a given Ambassador. The host country has the right to not give consent. After the Ambassador has been accepted:
"The 1961 Vienna Treaty on Diplomatic Relations... Article 9 states, "The receiving state may at any time and without having to explain its decision, notify the sending state that the head of the mission or any member of the diplomatic staff of the mission is persona non grata or that any other member of the staff of the mission is not acceptable. In any such case, the sending state shall, as appropriate, either recall the person concerned or terminate his functions with the mission."
Kick Sir Kim's weaselly @$$ out!
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