Cameron's Chinese Takeaway
In 1793 Britain despatched its first diplomatic mission to China, seeking trade. However, the head of the mission, Lord George Macartney, was happy to see it fail rather than kow-tow, as demanded, to the Chinese Emperor. Lord Macartney placing pride and patriotism before profit. It is clear that today’s Prime Minister David Cameron has no such scruples.
His current mission to Beijing has been one long kow-tow to the Chinese as Cameron has fawned and grovelled, begging China to “invest in” – i.e. buy up - large swathes of what remains of British industry, offering to let lots more Chinese into Britain, and promising to help China dump its cheap imports on the EU. Brussels compounded Cameron’s degradation here by contemptuously telling Cameron they would let him do no such thing. Whereupon plastic patriot Nigel Farage, Supreme Autocrat of UKIP, chipped in, denouncing British membership of the EU as an impediment to “free trade” with China, i.e. selling off even more of our country to the Chinese. . . .
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