Sledging Aussies
If anyone needs to know what sledging is and who is best at it they can just look up Australian cricket online, all the stories I know are far too rude to write about here. But the idea that Liz Truss should have a go at it is beyond a joke. What kind of person thinks that the best way to get “glacially slow” international talks going is to criticise your much more experienced opposite number and threaten to put him in an uncomfortable chair? Really!
It is so damaging that for once you might suspect that the details had really been leaked by a remainiac saboteur; but it is fairly obvious from reading the stories that it is actually the Toad of Toadhall posturing of some Brexit supporting Hurrah Henry.
If I was the Australians I would turn up at the talks with a soft cushion in every briefcase and make a song and dance about putting them on the chairs and then drag the talks on for a few extra hours. But perhaps even the famously blunt Aussies are more diplomatic than that or maybe they know their military history; as Napoleon once said “Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.”
Global Britain is also not helped by cuts to foreign aid and the defence budget nor by the situation in Northern Ireland; all of which make the UK look two faced and less important, not more. But insulting the one person whose help you need to get the first real post Brexit trade deal isn’t just crass, it makes the UK a laughing stock.
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