Number 10 may be content that they just about got away with the visit to the Oval Office yesterday, as Andrew Porter reports from Washington.
But on this side of the Atlantic the whole business looked pretty demeaning. The morning papers and TV last night featured plenty of comment focused on the White House's very odd and, frankly, exceptionally rude treatment of a British PM. Squeezing in a meeting, denying him a full press conference with flags etc. The British press corps, left outside for an hour in the cold, can take it and their privations are of limited concern to the public.
But Obama's merely warmish words (one of our closest allies, said with little sincerity or passion) left a bitter taste with this Atlanticist. Especially after his team had made Number 10 beg for a mini press conference and then not even offered the PM lunch.
Thursday, March 05, 2009
President Barack Obama just plain rude to Britain
I don't like Brown either, but I think Obama should have served him lunch. I can't imagine Bush treating him this way. I'm guessing that the Obama advisers don't want to be too closely associated with Brown, who is expected to lose the next election in Britain.
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