Politics in the Gransnet Cafe

With journalists in a cafe you always need to make sure the salt cellar on the table is full.

yes, large pinches are necessary!
I wondered where the other thread had gone to Ankers
I started to watch Question Time last night, and then thought , nope, have had enoughof politics at the moment, the same old things about Trump and Brexit, I need a break from it.At least for one evening!

Yes. I felt exactly the same.

However anyone keeps up with ^him etc I dont know.

I am sick of Trump and Brexit and hearing talk of the special relationship.

Why did you need to start a new thread, Ankers? Couldn't you just have carried on with the one from yesterday...

Otherwise they're going to fill up the Café list.

I grew up thinking they had a special relationship.
Perhaps they did.

But now I am older, I realise that it is a complex one, with lots of layers. And dependency? Mainly on our part.

I could have done Ana. But as I said, a lot of people dont like too long threads to read. And I can see their point.

Plus it is more chat-like to do it this way?

And things start afresh and new every day.
Like the coffee!

Which of the following is likelier
A row of unicorns ???????????????????????
Or
politics thread which is not going to get confrontational??

My money's on the unicorns MawBroon

Ah yes, but this cafe chat is different ,at least as it has to be non confrontational due to it's very nature....... and I'll fight any one of yous who says different!

Non confrontationally of course, I hope rosesarered!!

The special relationship is still there, there are a lot of ties that bind between us and the US.That doesn't mean that TMay has to be as starstruck as TBlair was to Bush though, and tbf I don't think she will be, Donald Trump is a bit like holding a tiger by the tail

Does anyone else cringe when they start talking about 'special relationships'? It just makes us sound so needy and toadying up to the Americans.

I have just seen this and I think it is so important for us all to think about.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8tjhVO1Tc&feature=youtu.be

Yes I cringe at the special relationship thing. And I cannot get my head round the idea of journalists in a cafe. In a pub maybe

I don't think the Americans talk of a "special relationship" it's only us. They do when we are over there but not at any other time.

I think you're right whitewave, and I guess that's what makes it even more deeply embarrassing!

Of course it's a 'Special" relationship, if they want our support for an illegal war they will be very nice to us, if we want a trade deal we have to toady up and ignore human rights abuse (oh and offer a nice bribe like a State visit). Can't get much more 'Special"

"Il y a toujours un qui baise, et l'autre qui tend la joue "
In other words one who makes all the running.

Is that the same as them screwing us? Sorry. (Exits the cafe in disgrace)

Pretty close!

I thought News at Ten (ITV?) Summed the POTUS up quite well
A President gone Rogue!