Unfortunately, positioning the UK's leadership role on the global climate stage by suggesting British people rinse plates before putting them in the dishwasher and freeze bread is what I've come to expect from this waffly, trivialising, badly run government. Puerile, silly PR 1/
It also reminds me that one of the cancers in this country is the belief we're the centre of the world. If people had worked, studied & generally experienced more international culture, they'd know how, especially post #Brexit, absolutely marginal and irrelevant we've become 2/
Does the US look to the UK in the way it used to? No, it looks to Europe. South America to China. Australia to Asia. The EU, to everywhere but Britain. Our silly painted planes & trade yachts make us look even smaller than we already are. But freeze your bread, it'll last longer.
We are mostly viewed with a mixture of empathy and derision, although most countries are too polite to express the hostility we do of them. U.K. centric thinking is serving no useful purpose other than deluding a part of the electorate that we might have an empire again. Idiotic.
Whatever so called ‘soft power’, a form of moral authority, we once had, has been destroyed by our contempt for international law, our cutting of aid, & our diplomatic failure even to stick to our own negotiated #brexit deal. It’s a truly pathetic record. But rinse a plate. 😂
When I pause to think about the state of our international reputation, which mercifully isn’t very often, I can only marvel at the utter banality and dimness of it all. 🧵 ENDS.
*Correction: I think the advice was NOT to rinse plates. Whatever. 🤯🤦🏻♂️
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