British Prime Minister Rushi Sunak cancelled a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. The Greek Prime Minister is rightfully offended, but he should not be surprised. The British are not now and have never been friends of Greece.
There are many Englishmen who have been philhellenes ranging from Lord Byron to Christopher Hitchens. There are many academics who have love Hellenism and Byzantium. However, the British government is no friend of Greece or Hellenism.
Prime Minister Mitsotakis gave an interview in which he asserted Greece’s justifiable claims to the Parthenon marbles. The British Prime Minister not being content with asserting British claims arrogantly cancelled a scheduled meeting with Mitsotakis who is visiting London. Greece should find a diplomatic way of retaliating by expelling one or two British diplomats from Greece.
The British snub should not be permitted to go unanswered. Greek leaders with an inferiority complex in awe of Europe and all things western have forgotten the role of the British (and other western powers) in Greece’s defeat in Asia Minor in 1922.
The British role in Cyprus is especially evil. The British invited Turkey to have a say in Cyprus during the 1950’s in order to stop EOKA’s heroic campaign to achieve union between Cyprus and Greece. Many Greek Cypriots ended up at the end of a British rope at that time.
Sherrie Blair, wife of British Prime Minister Tony Blair was a lawyer for British citizens who have “purchased” the homes of Greek Cypriots in occupied Cyprus. The British up to the present time are playing a destructive role in Cyprus.
Mitsotakis has harmed relations with Russia and Iran in order to curry favor with the west. This snub by the British should be a lesson as to how poorly Greece is looked upon not only by the British, but by the west as a whole. At a minimum, Athens needs to call in the British ambassador to lodge a protest and needs to consider expelling British diplomats in retaliation for the snub.
2 replies on “Britain Snubs Mitsotakis”
Rishi Sunak is a stooge and a puppet, he gets his daily talking points on world affairs from unelected elites in the British Foreign Office. Unquestionably somebody told him the Marbles would come up in conversation and to avoid that discomforting discussion he dissed Mitsotakis. You’re right, it signals the complete lack of respect Western Globalist Elites feel for Greece. Mitsotakis should take it as a lesson-learned.
Sunak has continued to defend his undiplomatic behavior. I really hope
Greeks come to recognize how hostile the British really are.