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**Chris** · 28-03-2015, 12:43

I'm not sure why anyone's surprised?

Yes, it stinks. It is also how the world works. International diplomacy is laden with certain rules and conventions. You can't be both on the barricades and in front of them. If you seek to pursue your agenda by accepting high political office, then you accept the conventions and restrictions that come with it. If you want to go about denouncing things, then you do so from a position where those you are denouncing can't cause widespread damage when they come after you.

Wallstrom has failed the Swedish people by carrying on like a student union rep rather than the foreign minister of a respected European nation.

28-03-2015, 12:43	#9
Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,978	Re: Je suis Margot I'm not sure why anyone's surprised? Yes, it stinks. It is also how the world works. International diplomacy is laden with certain rules and conventions. You can't be both on the barricades and in front of them. If you seek to pursue your agenda by accepting high political office, then you accept the conventions and restrictions that come with it. If you want to go about denouncing things, then you do so from a position where those you are denouncing can't cause widespread damage when they come after you. Wallstrom has failed the Swedish people by carrying on like a student union rep rather than the foreign minister of a respected European nation.