Речь, произнесенная в Старом Королевском Военно-Морском Колледже, что в Гринвиче 3 февраля 2020 года
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Это в качестве "sorry" от
sturman_george за публикацию на страницах этого ЖЖ "Мишустинских тварей на красной планете и иети"."It is great to welcome everyone here to Greenwich and I invite you first to raise your eyes to the heavens.
The Vatican has Michelangelo.
Greenwich has Thornhill who spent 20 years flat on his back on top of the scaffolding, so rigid that his arm became permanently wonky, and he’s left us this gorgeous and slightly bonkers symbolic scene that captures the spirit of the United Kingdom in the early 18th century.
This painting above you was started in 1707, the very year when the union with Scotland was agreed – and does it not speak of supreme national self-confidence?
Look at these well-fed nymphs and cupids and what have you.
They are not just celebrating the Triumph of Liberty and Peace over Tyranny – the official title of the scene.
This is the settlement of a long and divisive political question about who gets to sit on the throne of England.
And it is visibly resolved as you can see in favour of William and Mary and the result is stability and certainty and optimism and an explosion of global trade propelled by new maritime technology".
И некоторые любопытные отрывки из речи британского премьер-министра:
We are ready for the great multi-dimensional game of chess in which we engage in more than one negotiation at once and we are limbering up to use nerves and muscles and instincts that this country has not had to use for half a century.
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We will get going with our friends in America and I share the optimism of Donald Trump and I say to all the naïve and juvenile anti-Americans in this country if there are any – there seem to be some - I say grow up – and get a grip.
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Will we stop Italian cars or German wine from entering this country tariff free, or quota free, unless the EU matches our UK laws on plastic coffee stirrers or maternity leave or unless they match our laws in any other field of policy that might conceivably affect the production of an Alfa Romeo or a bottle of gewurtztraminer?
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So I hope our friends will understand that what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
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It is an incredible fact that we still sell not one hamburger’s worth of beef to the US, not one kebab’s worth of lamb, and as I speak the people of the US are still surviving without an ounce of Scottish haggis which they continue to ban Mr Ambassador.
In fact I don’t know how they manage Burns Night.
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We do extraordinary things as I never tire of telling you.
Tea to China, cake to France, TV aerials to South Korea and so on.
Boomerangs to Australia - Nigel Farage to America. Then he came back of course.