As a “perfect storm” blows through the UK, disrupting flights and road travel, it does not augur well for those with planned Christmas get-away holidays. With climate change perhaps staycations seem to be the best bet! You could always cuddle up at home and wait for Santa while watching the evermore stormy politics over diplomatic representation in the UK and US. What happened to the legendary friendship between the two countries? And now with Elon Musk all set to meddle more in British politics — the political turmoil may get worse in the New Year.
Actually, things have not been very cordial between the Labour government in the UK and Donald Trump’s yet-to-be installed government in the US because (if you recall) Labour volunteers were traipsing around the US trying to persuade voters to not support Trump. Nothing wrong, of course, in trying to ensure that anyone-but-Trump comes to power— except when it does not work! And among those who expressed his disdain for Donald Trump was Peter Mandelson, former Labour spin doctor. Known popularly as the “Prince of Darkness “during the Labour years — Lord Mandelson has been just been appointed UK’s ambassador to the US by the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer.
This is an interesting choice because Lord Mandelson has already declared that Trump was close to being a “white nationalist and racist” — and that he was “reckless and a danger to the world”. Not exactly praise, one might say, though it may not be as.
