I am not sure if, as Donald Trump suggests, that Nigel Farage would be great British ambassador to the USA. I could think of a good few people who would surely be ahead of him in the pecking order. Sid Little, Antony Worrall Thompson and Chesney Hawkes each have far more compelling cases to be considered. Anyway, since when was Donald Trump able to choose his own foreign ambassadors?
I suspect most of us, even those who have taken leave of their senses (if they had any in the first place) who support the “interim” leader of the BNP in blazers, accept that Farage would be an absolute disaster if he held any governmental position, especially that he has always been soundly rejected by the voters every time he has stood for our parliament.
Of far more concern to anyone should be Trump’s priorities. Although he is currently assembling the most right wing administration since Hitler became leader of the German National Socialists in the 1920s (I am not joking here), you would have thought he would be focussed on delivering on his vague electoral promises. Lest we forget that the USA is a hopelessly divided country in all manner of ways and if Trump is to deliver on his pledge to “make America great again” it might be an idea for him to tell us how. Recommending an ego-centric shyster and huskster like Farage for a job in diplomacy does not strike me as very sensible.
Trump’s twitter suggestion has other implications too and make no mistake that this is a major snub to Theresa May and her hapless colleagues. May was only ninth in the line of callers the orange (with a small ‘o’) man chose to contact after his victory and whilst she made subsequent play of Britain’s “special relationship”, this was an increasingly desperate PM clutching at non existent straws. May and her fellow Brexit buffoons were banking on Trump giving Britain some undefined preferential treatment on trade deals and in one fell swoop Trump and Farage have, as we say in politics, pissed on her fireworks. Intentionally or not, Trump has forced May to dismiss his friend Farage as a potential ambassador to the USA and a mean, vindictive and thin-skinned man like Trump won’t like it. There was no chance of Trump carrying out an immediate flurry of unilateral trading deals with Britain, not least because we don’t actually leave the EU for the best part of two and a half years. You can’t negotiate on the basis of nothing.
It is a national embarrassment to even see Farage on an international platform, misrepresenting his country in order to soothe his ever-expanding ago. To see him in America with the begging bowl, asking for Trump to give him a job (of course he did: don’t believe anything to the contrary because this is the old boys network, I scratched your back, you scratched mine) makes this country look silly and it undermines our real PM, not that I care much about the latter.
The middle east is in permanent conflict, climate change is happening faster than ever, the world is becoming de-industrialised on a massive scale with the advent of technology, there are millions of refugees all over the planet, yet the leader-elect of the free world is only concerned about giving one of his mates a job, a job he himself is not empowered to make. It’s lucky nothing all that important will happen in the next four years…
