Nigel Farage for US ambassador? Trump tweet has UK squirming
Source: CNN
The UK has rejected a suggestion by US President-elect Donald Trump that it should appoint the figurehead of the Brexit movement, Nigel Farage, as ambassador to the US.
Trump caused diplomatic ripples when he said on Twitter that Farage, interim leader of the anti-immigrant UK Independence Party (UKIP), would "do a great job" in the post.
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A spokesman for the office of British Prime Minister Theresa May blocked the idea, telling CNN the UK appoints its own ambassadors and that the position was filled.
Trump's expression of a preference for UK ambassador to Washington was a startling break with diplomatic protocol. It is unheard of in recent years for any US official to make such a suggestion to an ally.
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Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/22/world/donald-trump-nigel-farage-us-ambassador/index.html?sr=twCNN112216donald-trump-nigel-farage-us-ambassador0150PMStoryLink&linkId=31435896
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)expand to include the UK?
he must have promised farage this job for his help campaigning.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,322 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)Telling other countries what to do now?
moondust
(19,993 posts)in the internal affairs of a sovereign nation. Anybody with a basic understanding of diplomacy knows you don't do that.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)They are almost the same.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)Any tired of winning yet?