Cameron calls Nigeria and Afghanistan "fantastically corrupt"

[Hans Mann]

British Prime Minister David Cameron has been caught on camera telling Queen Elizabeth that Nigeria and Afghanistan are "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world".

Mr Cameron was attending an event at Buckingham Palace when a microphone picked up a conservation between himself, the Queen and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

"We've got some leaders of some fantastically corrupt countries coming to Britain," Mr Cameron said, referring to an anti-corruption summit he is hosting on Thursday.

"Nigeria and Afghanistan, possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world."

Archbishop Welby, who worked.....

http://www.xxx.xxx.xx/news/2016-05-1...ntries/7403126

[Hans Mann]

And HM Queen refers to Chinese officials as "rude"....

[pseudolus]

Is he laughing about it because it's a joke, and he finds it funny that most people do not know that the UK and US and the most corrupt countries in the world?

No wonder betty wasn't laughing "STFU dave..... people might have a look at us"

[Norton]

Nigeria and Afghanistan are "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world".

Eton Oxford grads are a sharp bunch. Amazing deductive powers.

[Scottish Gary]

Nigeria is not corrupt. I'm currently in the middle of a deal with a Nigerian prince to help him move a million dollars out the country. All he asked me to do was send him my bank details.
You wouldn't get that kind of generosity in the UK i can tell you

[thaimeme]

Why are they concerned and terribly angst about who is and whose not?

Makes then feel better towards their own false superiority and cultural illusions?

[OhOh]

The ex colonies certainly learnt from their past masters.

[rickschoppers]

So does that make Britain unfantastically corrupt?

[OhOh]

Just institutionalised.

[Hans Mann]

British 'barbarians' need manners lesson, says China paper


Britain's Queen Elizabeth II hosts a State Banquet for Chinese President Xi Jinping, at Buckingham Palace in London, on October 20, 2015

Beijing (AFP) - The British media is riddled with "barbarians" who would benefit from a lesson in manners from China's ancient civilisation, a state-run newspaper said Thursday after Queen Elizabeth II called some Chinese officials "very rude".

In a rare diplomatic gaffe, the British monarch was caught on camera at a Buckingham Palace garden party making unguarded comments about a state visit last year by President Xi Jinping that drummed up billions in Chinese investment.

The remarks made headlines worldwide on Wednesday but initially they were largely censored in China, blacked out of BBC World transmissions, according to the British broadcaster.

The Global Times newspaper, which is close to China's ruling Communist Party, blamed the British media for blowing the incident out of proportion and fawning over the footage as if it was "the most precious treasure".

"The West in modern times has risen to the top and created a brilliant civilisation, but their media is full of reckless 'gossip fiends' who bare their fangs and brandish their claws and are very narcissistic, retaining the bad manners of 'barbarians'," it said in an editorial.

"As they experience constant exposure to the 5,000 years of continuous Eastern civilisation, we believe they will make progress" when it comes to manners, it added in the Chinese-language piece, which was not published in English.

London and Beijing have both proclaimed a new "golden era" of relations between the former imperial power -- whose forces repeatedly invaded China in the 19th century -- and the rising Asian giant, now the world's second-largest economy.

Xi's trip in October saw a clutch of contracts announced, which Cameron said were worth almost $58 billion.

At the time the overseas edition of the People's Daily, the Communist Party's official mouthpiece, breathlessly portraying the visit as the start of a beautiful friendship.

But in her recorded comments the Queen commiserated with a police commander for her "bad luck" in having to oversee security for Xi and his wife.

Members of the Chinese delegation "were very rude to the ambassador", the monarch said, exclaiming: "Extraordinary!"

- 'Exposing itself' -

A columnist at Chinese website "Today's Headlines" recalled visible mutual discomfort during the three-day sojourn, describing it as "thought-provoking awkwardness" and adding it "primarily arose out of cultural and political differences".

On Chinese social media posters decried Britain's lack of awareness and understanding of Chinese ways, noting "an arrogance which makes them feel they needn't bother to learn".

"Every country's customs are different, OK - not all people must cater to you," wrote a commenter on the Twitter-like Sina Weibo.

Others were ashamed.

"We're already embarrassed by talk about what our average people get up to abroad," said one. "Being embarrassed by our officials abroad is even worse."

The British monarch never expresses overtly political views in public and is known for her discretion, never granting an interview in her 64-year reign.

But her comments came as British Prime Minister David Cameron was recorded calling Nigeria and Afghanistan "possibly the two most corrupt countries in the world", heaping scrutiny on the tete-a-tetes of British leadership.

"Even among Western countries, Britain is most frequently 'caught with its pants down' and 'exposing itself'," the Global Times editorial said.

But it added that it would be "unthinkable" for British authorities to have deliberately leaked the royal footage, as "if they had deliberately done so, that would have been truly crude and rude".

The paper shrugged off the Queen's comments themselves as "not a big deal", stating: "Chinese diplomats surely also scoff at British bureaucrats in private."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/british-b...51.html?ref=gs

[OhOh]

In a rare diplomatic gaffe, the British monarch

The Saxe-Coburg/Gotha and Mountbattens are renowned for their "gaffs". Even the pre-planned ones.