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Portugal's ambassador to Britain, Senor Antonio Santana Carlos,
says that the
Madeleine McCann case has
seriously damaged relations between the two countries. Well,
whose fault is that?
It is the fault of the spectacularly stupid, cruel
Portuguese police. I have never much cared for the
convention of calling cops "pigs" or "filth", but I am happy to
make an exception.
They have tried to cover their humiliation at coming nowhere
close to finding that stolen child by fitting up her parents.
The decline in relations is also the fault of the appalling
Portuguese media, happy to print any piece of poisonous trash
spoon-fed to them by "police sources" treating the abduction of
a small child as light entertainment.
And the Portuguese public must also take their share of the
blame. The sight of locals jeering at
Kate
McCann as she went in for questioning made me feel as
though these leering bumpkins were not from another country, but
another planet.
And the good ambassador can also be blamed for the decline in
relations.
When he should be exercising a little diplomacy, he huffs and he
puffs about the McCanns' tragic decision to leave their children
sleeping alone on the night Madeleine was stolen.
"In Portugal we have the concept of a nuclear family," sniffs
Senor Carlos. "That the families all live together."
They made a mistake, ambassador. Their lives have been wrecked.
That is punishment enough, without your asinine, unwanted
comments.
And I would respectfully suggest that in future, if you can't
say something constructive about the disappearance of little
Madeleine, then you just keep your stupid, sardine-munching
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