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2007-11-11 Britain

Foreign Office minister is liability, say his officials

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Posted by ryuge 2007-11-11 07:20|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Lord Malloch-Brown, AKA George Soros's bought-and-paid-for bitch

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2007-11-11 09:44|| 2007-11-11 09:44|| Front Page Top

#2 One of many.

Posted by lotp 2007-11-11 10:00|| 2007-11-11 10:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, that's good to see. I had thought he was in the mainstream of Brit thought now.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2007-11-11 10:41|| 2007-11-11 10:41|| Front Page Top

#4 It's not whether or not he's in the mainstream. In many ways he is, especially in the Foreign Office. It's simply that he doesn't know his place. He lives in a free apartment his job doesn't entitle him to, he wanders into meetings as if he owed the place, he makes policy statements that cause the Prime Minister to change his travel plans in order to grovel at That American's feet, and speaks publicly what was meant to happen sub rosa...

Lord Malloch-Brown is acting as if he still were the assistant to the ruler of the world, Kofi Anan, not a mere small-M minister in the Foreign Office.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-11-11 12:17|| 2007-11-11 12:17|| Front Page Top

#5 Malloch-Brown, a former United Nations official brought into government by Gordon Brown, has fallen out with some diplomats who have dubbed him Bollock-Brown for his off-message views.

He's there because he makes the prime minister look reasonable. Bollock says something outrageous, and Gordo gets to play the diplomat (even tho he agrees with Bollock) It's like the old Monty Python routine:

WHISTLER: Yes, thank you. Right, Your Majesty is like a stream of bat's piss.

(gasps)

PRINCE OF WALES: What?

WHISTLER: It was one of Wilde's.

WILDE: It sodding was not! It was Shaw!

PRINCE OF WALES: Well, Mr. Shaw?

SHAW: I, um, I, ah, I merely meant, Your Majesty, that, ah, you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around is dark.

Posted by Pappy 2007-11-11 13:44|| 2007-11-11 13:44|| Front Page Top

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