David Cameron accused Ed Miliband of 'siding with Russia' over Syria

[arenean]

Source: The Guardian

David Cameron accused Ed Miliband of siding with Russia and letting down the United States over Syria in an acrimonious phone call made between the leaders a day before the Commons votes against intervention in Syria, according to Labour sources.

Details of the remarkably frank conversation emerged after Downing Street aides attempted to blame Miliband for killing off the government's plans to take military action against the Assad's regime in conjunction with the United States.

When Miliband made it clear in the call he would not support the government motion without more conditions, an exasperated Cameron accused him of "letting down America" and "siding with [Sergei] Lavrov", the Russian foreign minister, and an ally of Assad.

One Labour aide said that was the point in which negotiations between Cameron and Miliband first started to break down on Wednesday. Cameron was hoping to reach cross-party consensus on a roadmap towards military action, The source said Miliband had also been disappointed by the language of a government source, who told The Times: "No 10 and the Foreign Office think Miliband is a fucking cunt and a copper-bottomed shit."


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/30/david-cameron-accused-miliband-siding-russia

[KittyWampus]

1. they say "copper-bottomed" as if that's a bad thing...

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. It's a British upper-class way of speaking

to call someone 'a shit' with something to qualify it which means 'outstanding' - eg "an A1 shit" ('A1' being the top rating for a ship at the Lloyds insurance registry) or "shit of the first order".

[BeyondGeography]

2. If there ever were an insult Olympics my money's on the Brits

[atreides1]

3. When did the UK become the 51st State?

Come on..."letting down America", one would expect to hear that from any Tea Bagger or Republican here in the US! But for those words to come from the Prime Minister of a sovereign nation...that speaks volumes about who David Cameron really is!

[dipsydoodle]

4. Siding with common sense more like it.

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[shotten99]

6. What a whiney bitch...

If his own party and coalition partners had supported him, then Cameron would have had his little war.

[Dawson Leery]

7. Typical Tory/Con. "You are either with us or against us."

No room for nuance.

[DeSwiss]

8. That's okay Ed you have nothing to feel sorry for......

...you didn't let us down. Hey David! Go Fuck Yourself!!!



K&R

[go west young man]

9. Finally a solid English person in government

who doesn't want to be the US's lapdog. Good job Millband. And here I was thinking it was the 53rd state already. (one after Istrael).

[BlueMTexpat]

10. You go, Ed! eom

Loved the comment above about an "Insult Olympics" being won by the British!

All too true!

[bemildred]

11. Hey Cameron, grow up! nt

[Solly Mack]

12. Wonder how that played with his brother (David Miliband)