Americans may say they love our accents (I have been accused of sounding ‘like Princess Di’) but the more thoughtful ones resent and rather dislike us as
a nation and people, as friends of mine have found out by being on the edge of conversations where Americans assumed no Englishmen were listening…
During an assignment in Washington I watched Bill Clinton fawn over the grisly IRA apologist Gerry Adams.
I learned that White House officials regarded us as on a level with, say, Yugoslavia – an annoying, backward European nation to be ordered about and forbidden to control its internal affairs.
That’s how it really stands. I would like a British Government to behave as if it understood this, instead of mouthing outdated and meaningless fake Churchillian ‘Finest Hour’ rubbish.
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