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Malvinas debate: Ambassador Castro describes PM Cameron as ‘a fool and completely useless’

Tuesday, August 20th 2013 - 23:26 UTC
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During a debate on the “Malvinas Question”, Argentine ambassador to the United Kingdom Alicia Castro launched a strong attack on Prime Minister David Cameron describing him as “a fool, dumb, and completely useless” politician, because of his comments when the election of Pope Francis. Read full article

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  • Malvinense 1833

    Gibraltar and the Falklands deny the logic of history:
    http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/14/gibraltar-falklands-deny-logic-history

    Aug 20th, 2013 - 11:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    Then take it to the ICJ, Malvi. Not “sometime” in the future. Now. History will win out. But then again, that's what Argentina and Spain are afraid of. The Islands are too useful a distraction against domestic issues for Argentina to resolve. And you know it.

    Aug 20th, 2013 - 11:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Marcos Alejandro

    1 Malvinense 1833
    Great article.

    “These relics of empire pay hardly any UK tax – but when the neighbours cut up nasty, they demand the British protect them”

    “a fool, dumb, and completely useless”
    Yep, the world including Brits, don't call him PM Camoron for nothing.

    Aug 20th, 2013 - 11:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    What a terrible article. It felt jumbled without a thread.

    Then I realised who is was about and realised that it was at least consistent with Castro.

    And the funniest thing is probably something the Malvinistas above don't get..... the UK does care what she says. Was she called in? Did the UK government react? Note verbale?

    Nope. Another non-event.
    Sinking without a trace.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 12:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    @3 Marcos the argie cuckoo in the nest.

    At least HMRCE takes tax from you, or are you another of those benefit spongers the rest of us support?

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 12:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • El capitano

    1 Malvinense 1833 (#)
    ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...once again time for a good giggle before bed,ol Malninense sure dont disapoint...BTW..just what is it that this prick is smoking...??

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 12:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • agent999

    @1, @3

    “Britain's claim to them in international law is wholly sound”

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Tik Tok

    If that is what was truly said then speaking out like that shows an absolute lack of class

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Dr. Jeorbbels

    Alicia Castro is not noted for her cerebral attributes, as for calling David Cameron a fool, the poor woman doesnt know what she is talking about. DC is no fool. If she wants fools she should check the mirror and the Casa Rosda there are plenty there. CFK, Timerman to start with.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Redrow

    In a normal country, any ambassador who publicly described the PM of the country they were working in “foolish, dumb and completely useless” would be recalled. But then Argentina is not a normal country.

    Does she honestly believe that calling us names will succeed where empty threats have failed?

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:54 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hektor

    Hi,

    I really do not care for Alicia Castro. She had said too many stupid things not becoming of an ambassador especially to the court of St James. I only hope for her to be replaced.

    She had no reason to call a sitting British Prime Minister a “fool and completely useless.” It is not our problem and certainly none of our business!

    Hektor

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Escoses Doido

    I've said it before, the pope will not go within a thousand miles of argentine claims to the Falkland islands. (metaphorically speaking)

    He, and the Vatican won't lower themselves.

    Ginger minge castro, what a tink.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 02:25 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Be serious

    Well, she's entitled to her opinion I suppose but that's all.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 02:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • jaydub

    Pot calling kettle black there I'd say....

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 03:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Steveu

    “... and in the event of loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks like these will descend from the overhead racks...breathe normally..etc”

    'Nuff said, really

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 05:22 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ElaineB

    She does not know how to behave. I doubt her name will appear on the guest lists of many key events in London.

    When you look at what she is complaining about it is really very simple. The Argentina government jumped to try to use the Pope in support of its spurious claims over the Falklands. Too stupid to recognise that there is a huge difference between the views of Buenos Aires Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio and the role of the Pope. As Pope he heads the Catholic church and serves the congregation spreading across the world. He is not a puppet in their mad President's fantasy.

    The Argentine government's representatives tried to USE the Pope and make political hay out of his appointment. Cameron responded. When another of the mad President's schemes failed they look to blame someone else. There is only one foolish, dumb and completely useless in this story and she is running Argentina. Though I use the term 'running' loosely.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 06:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Islander1

    Malvi and Marcos - please answer me: WHY do you not tell Arg Govt to take the issue to the Int Court of Justice then?

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 06:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    No diplomat makes these sort of comments without having first 'considered their position'.
    It seems obvious to me that she wishes to be replaced as 'Ambassador' to the United Kingdom. The least the UK Prime Minister can do is to accommodate the lady.

    [I imagine there is little scope for the amassing of personal fortunes if you are an ambassador; a return to Argentina gives her a better chance to do so before 'the balloon goes up'.]

    I suggest she returns under the cloak of diplomatic immunity because the police at Heathrow have ways to detain her 'at Her Majesty's pleasure' .. almost indefinitely.
    There is no record on the internet that she is *officially* an Ambassador, so she is at real risk of being taken in for questioning - especially if she has had any earlier dealings with potential or actual terrorists.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 07:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Faz

    What a plank!

    How to win friends and influence people!

    Argentina doesn't do foriegn affairs or diplomacy does it?

    I suppose it all stems from Gollum... You know, the failed foriegn minister.

    And...the whole flawed 'Malvinas' strategy, which is a total non-starter which comes from TMBOA .

    Personally I think the Argies have totally given up on the Falklands. They realise they stand a snowballs chance in hell of ever getting the islands, and like a sullen child they now cover their face crouching in the corner hurling insults and trying to stir up trouble. It's pathetic.

    It manifests itself in the actions of their horrid ambassador, their maniacle President, failed foreign minister, and even the trolls on here - a load of sullen children spitting bile.

    What does one do with a child like that....ignore them.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 07:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Viva Las Falklands

    Double standards from the tart from argentina. Complains about the disrespecting of the Bolivian president then disrespects DC.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 07:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Casper

    The undiplomatic Diplomat. Just seems like bad manners to me. I wish Graham Greene was still alive. He could have had so much fun with this.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 07:33 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Britworker

    She shouts and screams and hurls insults, dragging the Vatican into a matter that is wholly irrelevant to the Catholic Church.
    She is a diplomatic disaster, but it plays well to the stupid argentine public who have exactly the politicians and economic cataclysm they deserve.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 07:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Gordo1

    The Pope is, I believe, 76 years old. The matter of the Falkland Island is, as far as we are concerned, already resolved. Due to his advanced years he is unlikely to live long enough to be of any useful support to the fairy tales, myths and outright lies of the Argentine lost cause anyway.

    As far as Alicia Castro is concerned she should be declared “persona non grata” by the British Government. I wonder how Argentina would react in the event the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires were to behave in a similar way - there would be loud and threatening crowds outside the Embassy building.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 08:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • yankeeboy

    The Rgs think they are funny and clever while the rest of the world sees them as stupid spoiled teenagers. I don't think they realize every nation of importance is ignoring them.
    Day in and day out they fall further and farther out of the real world while dragging 40MM people with them.
    It is very sad.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 08:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • agent999

    Castro - Argentinian diplomacy at its best!

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 08:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    As a lifelong Conservative voter I am, as many know on here, NOT a supporter of Cameron.

    Indeed I am one of those who have referred to him as “Camoron” but there is an important difference between my comments and those of Castro. I pay taxes in Britain and hold a British Passport and am not in the Diplomatic Service.

    Castro is, laughingly, the Argentine Ambassador to the Court of St. James and should act accordingly.

    Gollum should ensure that she does but therein lies the real problem which goes all the way up to TMBOA.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 09:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conqueror

    Is Castro trying to provoke? Not especially bright trying to match argieland's undiplomatic history against Britain's thousand years. It is true that the FCO is pretty prattish. But it has been for many years. We are used to it. Every so often they get given a smart kick in the balls to remind them whose side they are supposed to be on. If that fails, they get posted to somewhere dangerous. Where the natives can kill them and we can express our regrets. A typical epitaph. “A very courageous [and, happily, dead] officer.” Fortunately the tosspots in the FCO haven't twigged yet. So we can get rid of more!

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 09:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • El capitano

    My my what a classy move,“ how to make friends and influence enemies”...Talk about a diplomatic gaff,but then again its Arjuntina this gobby bitch represents so I guess this kind of behaviour is to be expected...!

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 09:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    “Finally the Argentine diplomat said that the Falklands March referendum “was extraordinarily useful for us” because is evidence to show the world and common people that the London position on the dispute “is not rational”.”

    What a phenomenally stupid and embubbled statement. A democratic referendum is not rational. Spoken like a true fascist. I thought you needed the sleep deprivation, medication and mental instability found only in the waning hours of the Jerry Lewis Telethon to get that sort of thing.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 10:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    This woman due to the post she holds should be asked to make a public apology which if she declines she should be given her marching orders.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Furry-Fat-Feck

    This is hilarious. Cameron is indeed a knob, an idiot and all of those things but this ugly tranny is an actual diplomat. He/she/it is indicative of the standards that Argentina has stooped to, how much lower can Argentina go?

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 10:16 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    Alicia Castro THE GOOD CATHOLIC with a daughter and no husband in sight

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 10:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Monty69

    I don't think this needs to be about either her appearance or her morals, neither of which are any business of ours or have any bearing on the way she does her job.

    The point is that her idea of diplomacy appears to be insulting the Prime Minister of GB and NI. Extraordinary. And quite unlikely to work, I'd say.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Could you imagine the hullabaloo this would have caused if these remarks were made by Cameron about her? I can!

    Mercosur/Unsar/Alba Uncle Tom Cobbley and all, all falling over themselves to denounce the gringos for disrespecting a Latin American diplomat/sister.

    Pmsl, expect Cameron did too.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    @33 Well talking about her competence is well... uh... just plain cruel.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 11:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Faz

    Churchills retort comes to mind....

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 11:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Jedi389

    I can just see the next debate -

    Alicia - “David Cameron - you are a stinky poo poo head, now give us Las Malvinas or I will scream until I am sick.

    David ”go away silly little girl, does your mummy know you are out on your own“?

    Alicia ”you have fart breath, Las Malvinas Son Argentino's“

    David ”carry on talking like that and I wil wsh your mouth out with soap and water“

    Alicia ”I am not playing if you bring any Mavinese people with you”

    David pits Alicia over his knee and spanks her like the spoiled brats her and her puppeteer are.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 11:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    37 Jedi389

    I would give her daughter a good spanking! :o)

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 12:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Lord Ton

    Easy to see who is not rational :-)

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 12:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Stiff Lower Lip

    La Conquista del desierto was colonial expansion... so was expropriating chunks of Paraguay...... but it's ok for an ex-colony to colonise ... and it still hasn't lost the impulse.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Troy Tempest

    23 gordo1

    “As far as Alicia Castro is concerned she should be declared “persona non grata” by the British Government. I wonder how Argentina would react in the event the British Ambassador in Buenos Aires were to behave in a similar way - there would be loud and threatening crowds outside the Embassy building.”

    I think she and Timerman both, were trying to provoke the UK into an angry disproportionate reaction.
    Otherwise, it just lacks sense.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Simon68

    40 Troy Tempest (#)
    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:29 pm

    “... Otherwise, it just lacks sense...”

    Sense and the Kirchner administration don't go together!!!!!!!!

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • BOTINHO

    In recent years, our neighbours in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela have requested that the accredited ambassadors from the United States be replaced for, among other things, what was perceived as insulting comments to these nations.

    I believe PM Cameron and the UK will show better judgment and diplomacy regarding the inflammatory, intentionally provocative, and emotional statements of the Argentine Ambassador Castro..

    Her comments are childish, and at least in my family, you don't reward a child for throwing a tantrum.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pirate Love

    Yet another Argentine own goal.
    An increasing desperate,incompetent Argentine official reduced to personal playground name slinging......Im sure Cameron is shitting his pants.

    Silence is key.......no verbal response needed!
    An extra typhoon should piss them off.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 01:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    They will not do that, however it is hard to see how she can now deal with Cameron, having lost all sense of diplomatic credibility.

    Start by black listing her from all UK diplomatic events, there are numerous of these gatherings every year, ambassadors to the Court of St James are invited as a matter of course.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 02:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • CaptainSilver

    Its clear that RGland has been trying to do a 'Spain' , but can't find a provocation. Please don't be beastly to the... Argentineans (germans) said Noel Coward.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    It seems the the UK is calling astro, I mean Castro to the carpet for clarification. They said it was undiplomatic to make such a statement and I could not agree more. I hope they kick her ass out of the UK.

    http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/138923/britain-asks-argentina-to-clarify-comments-about-dumb-cameron

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 02:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hektor

    @13 Be Serious:

    You said:

    “Well, she's entitled to her opinion I suppose but that's all.”

    If she was a private citizen, then I agree with you. However, she is the Argentine Ambassador. I consider her remarks unacceptable. I, as private citizen, do not consider myself to have knwledge enough to crticize Cameron, on this site, eventhough I do not have a good opinion of him.

    Hektor

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 03:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Pausing for a laugh. Wonder if she is laughing now that her diplomatic credentials may be at risk?

    I take it she is a career diplomat.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 03:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    Seems Castro is now back tracking and what she said was taken out of context

    Argentina Envoy Alicia Castro Denies 'Dumb' PM Insult



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    Argentina, David Cameron, The Pope, U.S. Senate, Alicia Castro, Freign Office, Pope Francis, Baroness Thatcher, Falkland Islands, Malvinas, Pontiff, Uk, UK NEWS, UK News
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    Argentina's ambassador to the UK has denied insulting David Cameron in a fresh spat between the countries over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.

    Alicia Castro appeared to mock the Prime Minister in remarks at the senate in Buenos Aires, saying he was “silly” to have raised the views of Pope Francis about the disputed territory.

    When the former bishop of the Argentine capital was named the new pontiff in March, Mr Cameron publicly stated that he disagreed with his previously stated view that the UK had “usurped” the islands.

    He also drew on Vatican tradition to joke about the clear backing in a referendum of islanders for remaining a UK overseas territory, saying the “white smoke over the Falklands was pretty clear”.

    At a meeting of the Senate's foreign affairs commission, the ambassador is reported to have dubbed the Prime Minister stupid and dumb and called his criticism of the Pope's stance “inefficient”.

    “Cameron was so stupid and inefficient when Pope Francis was chosen as the new papal leader because he broadcast what he had been saying about the Malvinas,” she is reported to have said, using the Spanish name for the Falklands.

    It swiftly drew calls from British MPs for an apology from the diplomat.

    As UK officials sought clarification of the remarks, the Argentine embassy issued a statement insisting that the comments were “taken out of context”.

    “With her comments Ambassador Castro referred exclusively to the failure of a communication strategy,” it said.

    “They were not meant as a personal affront to Mr Cameron, nor to the Prime Minister's office.

    ”During the presentation the Ambassador mentioned the calling int

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 03:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Hektor

    @48 reality check

    Alicia Castro is not a career diplomat; she is a political appointee . If she were, she would not be so asinine and insolent.

    Hektor

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 03:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Ah there it is!

    The old taken out of context chestnut.

    Stories like this always make me think of the old adage about engaging your brain before putting your mouth into gear!

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 03:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • andy65

    Once again Castro is made to look the fool she so obviously is- CAREER DIPLOMAT MY ARSE

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 04:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    Was it General LEE? who said, that he worried that one day the Yanks would find a General who knew what he was doing.

    Christina reminds me of that, I worry that one day, she may find someone who knows what they are doing, but I doubt it!

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 04:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Faulconbridge

    One amusing aspect is that Ambassador Castro seems completely unaware that Britain is not a Roman Catholic country- indeed defines itself as “not a Roman Catholic country”- and that the pope has no influence there.

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 05:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rupertbrooks0

    This is so embarrassing. Doesn’t Argentina possess a professional diplomatic service? It is also inaccurate. PM Cameron did not insult the new Pope. He was asked a question at a news conference about comments made by the then Archbishop of Buenos Aires at a Mass marking the 30th anniversary of the war in 2012. The archbishop had said that the Argentinian forces that died following the invasion:

    “went out to defend their mother, the homeland, to reclaim what is theirs” and he described the British re-conquest of the Islands as”usurpation“.

    When asked about Pope Francis's views on the Falklands the PM replied:

    ”I don't agree with him, respectfully, obviously,”

    The PM continued with a reference to the then recent referendum:

    “There was a pretty extraordinarily clear referendum in the Falkland Islands, and I think that is a message to everyone in the world that the people of these islands have chosen very clearly the future they want and that choice should be respected by everyone.”

    I appreciate that many people in Argentina won’t agree with the PM but it’s ridiculous to suggest that the PM is gratuitously insulting the new Pope.

    However that is clearly not the case with Argentinas Ambassador to the Court of St James who appears to have knowingly and deliberately insulted her UK host Government. I understand from the newspapers here in London that Ambassador Castro does not make a good impression on the London diplomatic circuit appearing Gauche and out of her intellectual and social depth.

    Equally when she meet British Parliamentarians in February at the Argentina-UK Parliamentary group, she said nothing about trade, or cultural exchanges, nothing about establishing research links between Universities. She gave no support to the many Argentine artists, students, architects and others living and working here in London. She merely obsessed about Las Malvinas and insulted the Falklanders as squatters and criminals without rights. It didn't go down

    Aug 21st, 2013 - 05:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GeoffWard2

    “... when she meet British Parliamentarians in February at the Argentina-UK Parliamentary group, she said nothing about trade, or cultural exchanges, nothing about establishing research links between Universities. She gave no support to the many Argentine artists, students, architects and others living and working here in London.”
    #56

    I think maybe her Foreign Minister has given her a different brief,
    and that the normal work of a real Ambassador is outside that brief.
    This makes her replacement with a 'real' ambassador somewhat easier.

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 06:34 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DanyBerger

    Another clear evidence of how Britain had become the irrelevant clown in the world that even Argentina call fool and complete useless to KaMoron.

    Time to reconsidering qualified voting in Ukistan ASAP to avoid more world embarrassment of this scale.

    I really cannot understand how Britons are not jumping from Dover’s cliff in mass to go to France swimming or may be I’m wrong and they are already jumping saliency and none notes that?

    Can that be possible?

    Well at least I can see light in the end of tunnel for fast solutions from troubling and embarrassing Britain.

    It is called Heathrow Airport and with just one way ticket to Africa.

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 06:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Anglotino

    I'm sorry but I can't make head nor tail of DanyBerger's post.

    Is he even on the right website?

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 07:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Simon68

    Given that her only training for being Ambassador to the Court of St. James was a 6 week course as a flight attendant and 2 and half years as concubine to Chubby Chávez, Alicia Castro's comments on Mr. Cameron seem fairly sophisticated!!!!!!!

    I think it would be great mistake to have her PNG'd, there must be very few such entertaining “diplomats”!!!!!!!!!

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 08:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Escoses Doido

    @59 Anglotino:
    I think He's using one of those translators they had on the movie ”Mars Attacks'......

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    61 Escoses Doido

    Brilliant, I had forgotten that little gem of a film!

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 02:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • DanyBerger

    Should I try in Spanglish this time?

    Ai dont nou guay Iu ar complainning abaut my excelent Inglish Bross.

    Mey bi Iu are yelus pejaps?

    Ai am Yuar Iu ar, Idiots!

    Bat de guay did Ai espelet guell de guoet “Idiots”?

    I joup sou!
    Chirsssssss

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    There is the other persona the linguist.........mmmmm, now who here thinks they are a brainy linquist?

    Castro a douche bag or a cum bag? Let's vote.

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • rupertbrooks0

    58 DanyBerger (#)

    Another odd comment. The UK can hardly be held responsible if Argentina appoints an incompetant, rude and ill educated former flight attendant to represent them. What support and influenze has she provided to the many decent Argentine business people, students and artists living here in London. I was speaking only the other day to
    Leandro Erlich, a leading Argentine 3D visual artist working here in Hackney London and he regards the Ambassador as an embarassment to Argentines in London.

    As for escaping to France, in truth its the other way around with many French people of talent moving to London to escape the high tax, anti-business, anti-sucess culture of the current French President François Hollande.

    Indeed London is the worlds most global city due to the rule of law, political stability, a globally important cultural centre, and possessing the worlds most prosperous, most culturally diverse and creative population. Rather than escaping to somewhere else the UK is welcoming the world.

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 08:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Captain Poppy

    Anyone else notice that two names disappear and reappear at the same times?

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 08:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Conor J

    @65
    Couldn't agree more, and as the latest population figures show our people are having more kids then ever and migrants are still desperate to come to our islands. It's obvious that DannyBugger has not been doing his reading.

    Aug 22nd, 2013 - 10:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • reality check

    @65
    Agree, come here folks, we judge you not by what language you speak, there have been many before you who spoke the languages of the world. We judge you not by what customs you have, there have been many before you who brought the cusoms of the world. We judge you not by you the god you pray to, there have been many before you who brought the gods of the world.

    Come here, here we judge you by none of these, here we judge you by who you are.

    Aug 23rd, 2013 - 03:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Pete Bog

    @60
    Simon, she is indeed a source of mirth, I think she's been seeing too many films with Sir Lesley Colin Patterson and using him as an example of diplomatic excellency.

    I guess on a positive note, if UK does not kick her out she will keep making diplomatic mistake after mistake, so no real threat, in fact an asset to the UK.

    For Argentina, at least she is not in a position of authority there.

    Aug 23rd, 2013 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • GFace

    @69, “Simon, she is indeed a source of mirth, I think she's been seeing too many films with Sir Lesley Colin Patterson and using him as an example of diplomatic excellency.”

    Would that be in the original British English or dubbed into “Standard” Argentine Spanish as per her law.

    Aug 24th, 2013 - 12:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Escoses Doido

    @70;
    Just in case anybody does not know who you refer to.
    Bloody funny!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F7E7lAp-hM

    Aug 24th, 2013 - 03:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • ChrisR

    71 Escoses Doido

    LOLs, I think boss-eyed Nestor must have modelled himself on Sir Les, especially when he was willing to “help any young woman who comes into the office”.

    Ha, ha, ha.

    Aug 24th, 2013 - 05:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
  • Escoses Doido

    Sssfugginpriceless - A tell ya!!

    Aug 24th, 2013 - 06:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0

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