Does anybody have any idea watch Blair said to him?
2007-07-19 23:09:22 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
The two have clashed about EU farm susbisdy reforms and Iraq.
(From the Guardian webiste - link below)
2002: When Tony Blair told Jacques Chirac that failing to reform the EU's common agricultural policy meant "being responsible for the starvation of the world's poor", the furious French president responded by telling the prime minister he had been "very badly brought up" and remarking: "No one has ever spoken to me like that."
Chirac also was famously rude about British food, comparing it to Finlands, saying that the only country in the world to have worse food than th UK was Finland. Just before the vote for where the 2012 Olympics were to be held, with Finland having a vote...
2007-07-20 19:11:13 · answer #1 · answered by The Patriot 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I've no idea, but it was one time Blair diod something right.
I did notice that Chirac got his own back quite neatly. He sent the Blairina a bottle of very expensive wine knowing full wel that ge would have to pay for it if he obeyed parliamentary rules.
One up for dear ol' Jacque Chirac
2007-07-20 14:53:28 · answer #2 · answered by Scouse 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How's your mistress doing?
2007-07-20 11:31:52 · answer #3 · answered by Beeswax 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋