Blairs sycophancy towards the American president was rather unseemly to say the least but the rush from the tories to ingratiate themselves with Obamas is quite incredible especially as its now clear the contempt that comes the other way. Special relationship? Arselicking sycophancy IMO
A confidential cable marked "no foreigners" from 1 April 2008 records: "The deputy chief of mission asked Hague whether the relationship between the UK and the US was 'still special'. Hague said he, David Cameron and George Osborne were 'children of Thatcher' and staunch Atlanticists … For his part, said Hague, he has a sister who is American, spends his own vacations in America and, like many similar to him, considers America the 'other country to turn to'.
"Hague said whoever enters 10 Downing Street as prime minister soon learns of the essential nature of the relationship with America. He went on: 'We want a pro-American regime. We need it. The world needs it.' "
LeBaron noted dryly: "This period of excessive UK speculation about the relationship is more paranoid than usual … This over-reading would often be humorous, if it were not so corrosive."He advised against taking advantage of British neuroses and said the UK remained highly useful to the US because of its "unparalleled" help in promoting America's aims. "Though tempting to argue that keeping HMG off balance about its current standing with us might make London more willing to respond favourably when pressed for assistance, in the long run it is not in US interests to have the UK public concluding the relationship is weakening, on either side.
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/03/wikileaks-cables-us-special-relationship ]The grauniad of course[/url] But its a good source for this.
Well Bliar set the bar fairly high didn't he. I'm not quite sure, short of invading Cuba, what Cameron can do in order to beat New Labours' performance.
I dont see Cameron or Osborne as anything like the ameri-philes suggested when compared to people like Liam Fox.
Clearly Fox and Hague were acting with the knowledge and consent of
Cameron.
🙄 Better than been one of the European leaders lapdogs IMHO
I doubt that very much TJ.
One thing that conservative government ministers do best is private politicing. Factional position plays are much more prevalent in the ttories than in even the backstabbing world of socialist/union politics.
as for Cameron's love of Hague, seen wor willy on the foreign office circuit of late? nope, me neither... persona non grata?
I always suspected that there was a fair amount of contempt from the Americans over the " special relationship" but I was surprised just how much contempt has been revealed in these leaks
lets ignore liam fox hes quite plainly a (swear filter prevents me)
i think hague, with camerons sanctioning, was just trying to reassure the yanks that we are the loyal footmen to the lords of the manor after browns gruff nature probably alienated obama somewhat
and as wikileaks has shown the last days of nulab were getting very jittery about renditions, torture etc