Our newest ambassador in the US,,

[BlackLabel]

[anonymous-user]

BlackLabel said:

"Goodness! Is this buttplug for me? Why, thank you!"

[Halmyre]

Greg66 said:

BlackLabel said:

"Goodness! Is this buttplug for me? Why, thank you!"

Is someone saying that off-screen?

Maybe Farage should recall that it's not the ambassador himself who hands round the sickly-sweet balls of ste, but one of the staff.

[johnxjsc1985]

BlackLabel said:

ah Mr Ambassador you are spoiling us....great joke.

[hyphen]

Farage met with Trump a 3rd time yesterday. Filmed at Trump Towers and US reporters confirm the lift went to trumps office.

Whatever you think of him, to not use his amazing links to the most powerful man in the world is a strange move by May that could backfire. In the same way she gave Boris a role to tame him, should have made a strategic move with Nigel too.

Seems a matter of time before Trump announces a role for Farage, wonder what it will be.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/15/nigel-f...

[TTwiggy]

hyphen said:

Seems a matter of time before Trump announces a role for Farage, wonder what it will be.

Something involving a suit where the tailor has gone big on bells?

[Countdown]

His nose is so far up Trump's rectal passage that I have serious doubts about him putting the interests of the UK above the interests of Trump.

[minimoog]

hyphen said:

Whatever you think of him, to not use his amazing links to the most powerful man in the world is a strange move by May that could backfire.

Presumably she prefers to deal with Putin direct rather than going through two middlemen.

[PurpleMoonlight]

hyphen said:

Whatever you think of him, to not use his amazing links to the most powerful man in the world is a strange move by May that could backfire. In the same way she gave Boris a role to tame him, should have made a strategic move with Nigel too.

No.

Boris comes across as a likable fool but underneath is very clever and astute.

Nigel comes across as a fool but underneath is very manipulative and self centered.

[anonymous-user]

Whatever we think of Farage, to not exploit his relationship with Trump strikes me as being particularly petty and short sighted, even if that means making up some 'special envoy' job for him. I doubt Trump even knows the British ambassadors name.

[ATG]

fblm said:

Whatever we think of Farage, to not exploit his relationship with Trump strikes me as being particularly petty and short sighted, even if that means making up some 'special envoy' job for him. I doubt Trump even knows the British ambassadors name.

That's as may be, but no one would seriously consider making Farage the ambassador and if we created some half-baked parallel role for him, it would do nothing but cause confusion and dilute the effectiveness of the actual ambassador and his team, even if Farage genuinely tried to stay on-message. And there's damn all chance he'd do that. He wouldn't stay on-message. He wouldn't even act in what he believed to be the best interest of the UK. He'd continue to do what he has always done and put his own interests way ahead of everyone else's.

[s2art]

ATG said:

He wouldn't even act in what he believed to be the best interest of the UK. He'd continue to do what he has always done and put his own interests way ahead of everyone else's.

I doubt that. He could have made more money by not getting into politics. Like it or not, he is a conviction politician.
And even Farage admits that he couldnt be a diplomat, so he isnt looking to replace the UK ambassador.

[TTwiggy]

s2art said:

He could have made more money by not getting into politics.

Debatable. Nige's much-vaunted 'career in the City' wasn't quite so vaunted among those who worked with him.

[anonymous-user]

ATG said:

That's as may be, but...

I don't see whats confusing about it at all, I didn't suggest he be made ambassador nor did I suggest he be given a half baked role. I suggested we use his relationship for the good of the UK. As for putting his own interests first, if that were true I suspect he would have just stayed on at LME where you can make ten times the gravy than the nasty jus served on the Brussels train.

[jjlynn27]

TTwiggy said:

s2art said:

He could have made more money by not getting into politics.

Debatable. Nige's much-vaunted 'career in the City' wasn't quite so vaunted among those who worked with him.

Precisely. But don't say that to the faithful ones. Kim-Jong Far is bestest for everest at everything.

Still funny, even after calling those same followers 'low grade' they still worship him.

Very entertaining.

[anonymous-user]

TTwiggy said:

Debatable. Nige's much-vaunted 'career in the City' wasn't quite so vaunted among those who worked with him.

He lasted over 20 years on the LME. OK those guys never made the money of the LIFFE or CME guys but still... its inconceivable he wasn't bringing in at the absolute bare minimum an MEP's income today, in the 1980's. The good news, if you don't like him, is that his liver is almost certainly fvcked.

[powerstroke]

Countdown said:

His nose is so far up Trump's rectal passage that I have serious doubts about him putting the interests of the UK above the interests of Trump.

maybe but he will never ever beat the Bliar Bush love in when our tone followed bush round the whitehouse lawn like a lovesick puppy ...

[chris watton]

powerstroke said:

Countdown said:

His nose is so far up Trump's rectal passage that I have serious doubts about him putting the interests of the UK above the interests of Trump.

maybe but he will never ever beat the Bliar Bush love in when our tone followed bush round the whitehouse lawn like a lovesick puppy ...

And let's not forget (how easy that is..) Brown and him literally running after Obama (beach), which was caught on camera.

[Countdown]

powerstroke said:

Countdown said:

His nose is so far up Trump's rectal passage that I have serious doubts about him putting the interests of the UK above the interests of Trump.

maybe but he will never ever beat the Bliar Bush love in when our tone followed bush round the whitehouse lawn like a lovesick puppy ...

Indeed. But nobody was suggesting that Blair should be our ambassador to the US just because GWB and the yanks loved him so much.....

[TTwiggy]

fblm said:

TTwiggy said:

Debatable. Nige's much-vaunted 'career in the City' wasn't quite so vaunted among those who worked with him.

He lasted over 20 years on the LME. OK those guys never made the money of the LIFFE or CME guys but still... its inconceivable he wasn't bringing in at the absolute bare minimum an MEP's income today, in the 1980's. The good news, if you don't like him, is that his liver is almost certainly fvcked.

I thought it was less time than that and that he worked for some rather questionable outfits? Regardless, the two people I know who worked with him described him as just about adequate. That aside, I certainly don't wish death on the chap!