Quote Originally Posted by Myrddraal View Post
Well for starters our extradition treaties with other countries are a little more... fair? But that's besides the point, I thought this was supposed to be a 'special' relationship, with both President and Prime Minister saying "We do thinks together". More often than not, you could rephrase that as "We do things for America".

This topic is straying from BP, but this is all relevant. What you are seeing is the expression of a growing sentiment in the UK that the US will piss all over us at the drop of a hat, and that the political attacks on BP, which have definitely gone beyond reasonable, are just another sign of that attitude in the US. If senators think that making accusations of our government and Prime Minister is fair game for political capital, then it betrays a certain arrogance with regards to the special relationship.
Well, I don't follow international relations much, but I can't think of a foreign country that I would expect to help us out. Sometimes we have mutual interests, sometimes our beliefs coincide.

I've only ever heard british people talk about the "special relationship". To me it sounds like "america is violating the special relationship" is your politicians equivalent of "britain to blame for bp" i.e. it's something they say to gain political capital in a "we britons won't be bossed around by arrogant americans" sort of way.