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UK gives Trump the cold shoulder over Farage ambassador proposal
Published in The Saudi Gazette on 23 - 11 - 2016

Britain on Tuesday dismissed US President-elect Donald Trump's unprecedented expression of support for Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage to be made British ambassador to Washington, saying pointedly that there is no vacancy for the job.
Trump, who after his election victory met Farage before any EU leaders, said on Twitter that "many people" would like to see the former metals trader turned politician as Britain's ambassador.
"Many people would like to see @Nigel_Farage represent Great Britain as their Ambassador to the United States. He would do a great job!" Trump said on Twitter.
Prime Minister Theresa May, who congratulated Trump on his victory, was swift to reject such an undiplomatic proposal.
"There is no vacancy," a Downing Street spokesman said when asked about Trump's remark on Tuesday. "We already have an excellent ambassador to the US."
It is highly unusual in the modern era for leaders to publicly suggest to foreign nations whom they would like to see as ambassador, though during strained relations they sometimes reject or expel envoys.
Farage, who spent decades campaigning for Britain to leave the European Union and helped force former Prime Minister David Cameron call the June referendum that brought the Brexit vote, spoke at a Trump rally during the US campaign and visited the president-elect after his victory.
As leader of the UK Independence Party (UKIP) and one of the key figures of the successful Brexit campaign, Farage has repeatedly angered European Union leaders by predicting the collapse of the EU, which he says is run by an out of touch elite of "idiots."
Farage said Trump's suggestion that he serve as ambassador had come "like a bolt from the blue" but Trump understood loyalty in a way that those in the "cesspit" of career politics did not. "I am in a good position with the President-elect's support to help. The world has changed and it's time that Downing Street did too," Farage said in an article written for the Breitbart news website.
"I would do anything to help our national interest and to help cement ties with the incoming Anglophile administration," Farage said.
A photograph of Trump greeting one of the EU's biggest critics before a gilded elevator shortly after the US election caused consternation in EU capitals, many of whom view Trump with a mixture of fear and puzzlement.
Once shunned by Britain's mainstream media and its political establishment, Farage peppers his speeches with jokes and the odd expletive while railing against what he calls the doomed European superstate and immigration into Britain.
Farage said Trump would be a great president after "the political revolution" that brought Brexit in Britain and Trump to power in the United States.
"In the United Kingdom the people have spoken but the players at the top have, I am afraid, stayed the same," Farage, 52, said. — Reuters


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