Romneyshambles

This Mitt bloke - you can keep him. We're sorry about sending you Piers Morgan, but don't feel you need to reciprocate.

Since he landed here he's been making vaguely offensive remarks about our shared "Anglo-Saxon heritage", publicly wondering whether the Olympics is going to be a disaster (fair enough, Mitt, but keep it to yourself - it's called politeness), getting zinged in return by David Cameron of all people ("Of course it's easy to put on the Olympics in the middle of nowhere"), apparently forgetting Ed Miliband's name (again, fair enough, but can you imagine Barack Obama doing that?), and then blabbing about his meeting with the head of MI6, which is Not Done.

Sir Humphrey at No.10 opined "What a total shocker. We are speechless."

I was also amused to hear Mitt refer to 'looking out of the backside of No.10'.

Alexandra Little said:

I'm enjoying Romneyshambles.

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I can't take credit for it, alas, it's a Twitter hashtag from this morning.

One @DCPlod has just announced that Mitt is retroactively cancelling his visit to the UK, hahaha.

(Also, the Sun's headline on the affair - 'Mitt the Twit' - ouch.)

William Haskins said:

or not.

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Well, as long as nobody directly related to him got tortured by us, I don't see where the animosity could be coming from.

Smiling Ted said:

This is particularly enjoyable because Mitty has been criticizing the president at least since 2010 for ruining America's standing in the world - making us look weak by apologizing everywhere, apparently.

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Yeah, I think America's friends abroad overwhelmingly support Obama over the shower that the GOP has been putting up against him, and have done since before he was elected.

William Haskins said:

ah yes. the old moving-the-goalpost dance of a thousand veils.

always entertaining.

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Oh, Haskins, old pal, if they gave out Olympic medals for nitpicking... I didn't place any goalposts to begin with, so I don't know why you'd accuse me of shifting them. Nobody knows precisely what happened with respect to BO Sr. One book claims this, one book claims that. The records are gone. The Mau Mau rebellion is a nasty chapter in our history from which nobody emerges with any credit. It's quite possible we did torture his granddad, and quite possible we didn't. If there's any animosity on Obama's part towards Britain, I don't think it's any less understandable than, say, an Irish-American feeling aggrieved with us on behalf of his oppressed ancestors from way back in another horrid colonial imbroglio; and so long as he expresses it mainly by minor things like declining to request the extension of a loan of a bust of Churchill, I don't really care.