Liz Truss hails 'hard-headed' AUKUS submarine deal as French foreign minister calls UK 'spare tyre'

[ToraToraTora]

https://news.sky.com/story/liz-truss-hails-hard-headed-aukus-submarine-deal-amid-deepening-row-with-france-12411869
.....we are "spare tyres" apparently!

[ToraToraTora]

It's fireside logs, not dogs, do keep up.

[ToraToraTora]

judge: "So any of our French friends referring to UK citizens as "Les Rosbifs" or - among the wider world - "Brits" (something I particularly dislike but manage to get over it whenever I hear it uttered) would be similarly castigated, then? " - well the anti British always support anyone rather than Britain so I doubt it but personally I do not object to many of the names foreigners have for us. eg Rosbifs - Fine, Limeys - Fine!

[New Judge]

Fine by me as well, Tora (though I do dislike "Brits"). Most of the others I look on as terms of endearment. I particularly like "Rosbifs".

[ToraToraTora]

Yes, I've always liked Rosbifs, there was a pub chain called "The Frog and Rosbif" a branch of which I used to go in in Paris!

[ABSpareEditor]

Title edited.

[vulcan42]

Quite a compliment really, a spare tyre is very useful.

[ToraToraTora]

hang on that's not my headline!

[THECORBYLOON]

10:21 refers

[ToraToraTora]

so is "AUKUS" now the official term?

[THECORBYLOON]

AUKUS or Aukus, as it is said as a word rather than letters, is sometimes seen as AUUKUS but the Aukus form shares the "u" in AU and "UK".

[pat2604]

/to be honest it gets on my nerves. I often have no idea what he’s talking about - but this silliness with ‘racism’ gets on my nerves more/

Seconded

[Togo]

The French want to join it now ... then it will be FAUKUS.

[Togo]

Haha. Ta TTT.(Daren't say "thanks" in case it is removed) (◠‿◠)

[youngmafbog]

//It's been reported.//

How pathetic, is that really all you have to worry about?

It seems there are many on here who are racist - to Cockneys or doesnt that count because they are white British.

[pat2604]

I agree, pathetic.