Thus the reason John Major has become the UK’s most forgotten, and most forgettable, post war Prime Minister. Even Tony Blair was better than this starched suit.
I think Obama set the tone when he removed Churhill’s statute.
Please, UK, stick around and pay no attention to the Cretin in the White House.
Hopefully we can 1) get rid of this bottom dweller next Nov, 2) immediately start legal proceedings on a great number of his felonies, 3) convict the b*stard (and he really is one in every sense of the word) , and hopefully 4) send the piece of excrement back to the country that he was born in.
There are no “friends” between nations.
Obama and the EUrtopians have killed any “special relationship”.
How can a term invented by a British Prime Minister be condescending to Britain? Only in Major's dull mind.
It has become obvious since the fall of the Berlin Wall that the West relies on the English-speaking nations to lead when freedom is in peril.
Easy, Americans in future should say that they have a “special relationship” with Britain that they could *never* have with Brussels.
Sadly, he has a point. The UK let itself be overtaken by islamos and the extreme PC Left, and the US sure isn’t what it was at one time.
I don’t think it’s dead. I don’t think John Major does either. It’s just no longer quite as “special”. For a variety of reasons (some good, some bad and some just inevitable) the two countries are no longer as close as they once were. As the balances of world power - economic, demographic and military - shift, then the stances of both countries will have to shift too. What John Major is saying is nothing more than a plea for both countries to recognise that basic truth.
John Major was the premier Euro-Enthusiast in the Tory (Conservative) Party in Great Britain through the 1990s. This enthusiasm inevitably leads to a corresponding decrease in the affinity towards the United States. That this poor successor to Lady Thatcher feels this way enlightens only his mindset of then and now.
Patronizing? Is the “special” in “special relationship” like the one in “special ed”?
Seriously though, he sounds kind of like a jilted lover who is rationalizing about why the man they love doesn’t call them anymore.
Let’s be more honest than Major is being: The Man-Child has lifted his leg all over the “special relationship” at every opportunity to demonstrate his contempt for Britain, and “special relationships” can’t be one-way streets.