Ɖ Obzrvr vy on ẃ ɖ Britiś rît śd b gvñ Jo Bîdn a worm welcm
Transcription of an Observer editorial of 8 July 2023
On ɖ īv v hiz vizit t mīt Riśi Sūnac n ɖ Cñ, hiz critics hir r roñ t clem ɖ YS līdr z ‘antīBritiś’
Saṭde, 8 Jlî 2023
It’s fer t se elimnts v ɖ YC’z p’liticl istabliśmnt n rîtwñ mīdia d’nt mć lîc Jo Bîdn. Ɖ YS prezidnt wz akzd v biyñ “antīBritiś” ẃn viẓtñ Norɖn Îrḷnd in Epril. Cnsrṿtiv comntetrz snird unīẓli at subsiqnt sīnz v him pleyñ t ɖ crǎd in Béal an Átha, hiz faṃli’z ansestṛl hom in Co. Mhaigh Eo, az h rcōld hǎ hiz fōrberz fled famin-stricn (Britiś-rūld) Îrḷnd fr a betr lîf in America.
Ẃt riyli anoid rîtwñ critics wz ɖt Bîdn viẓtd Dublin on ɖt trip, winñ standñ oveśnz in ɖ Dáil Éireann, bt dd’nt fînd tîm t cm t Wsminstr. “I’m at hom,” h dclerd in Îrḷnd’z capitl. “I jst wś I cd ste longr.” It’s unlîcli Bîdn wl fīl ɖ sem we on Munde ẃn h mcs a brīf stop-ovr in Lundn t mīt Riśi Sūnac n Cñ Ćarlz, en route t Nato’z Ycren crîsișumit in Liʈueńa.
Far fṛm rolñ ǎt a vrbl red carpit, Bîdn’z dtractrz hv bn biẓli raitñ him of. Ɖ list v hiz alejidli igrījs trnzgreśnz includz dclînñ t gv Brexitrz ɖ prîzd YS-YC fri-tred agrīmnt ɖe promist votrz, qipñ ɖt h hd travld t Belfast t “mc śr … ɖ Brits dd’nt scru arnd” wɖ ɖ pīsproses, trnñ p lêt fr Qīn Iliẓbʈ II’z fynṛl last Sptmbr n nt trnñ p at ol fr ɖ cñ’z coṛneśn in Me.
Sć criṭsizmz, p’liticli unrịlistic, peti n oṿsnṣtiv, pṛvîd a clu az t ẃ ɖ YS – n nt jst ɖ Bîdn admiṇstreśn – hz dificlti tecñ Britn sirịsli ɖz dez. Ɖ YC z’nt ɖ globl pleyr it wns wz, ẃtvr Toriz me se. Bî līvñ ɖ YY, it hz lost ɖ inflụns n līṿrij in Yṛp ɖ Americnz valyd. Jioṗliticli, ɖ YC z stuc p a blînd ali. Its “tilt” t ɖ Eźa-Psific impresz nɖr Wośñtn nr Bêźñ. Cuts in oṿsìz ed n ɖ antiṣpetd fełr t onr clîṃt-fundñ plejz frɖr unḍcut Britiś soft pǎr.
Bîdn’z blocñ v Ben Wolis az ɖ nxt Nato secṛtrijenṛl z a rflex́n nt on ɖ dfnșecṛtri’z record bt on ɖ YC’z dminiśt standñ n clǎt. It’s nt a rīzn t sulc. Rɖr, it z a tîmli rmîndr v a p’liticl riaḷti ɖt Sūnac, lîc hiz dluźnl prīdisesrz, Liz Trus n Boris Jonsn, sīmz unebl t grasp. Vyd fṛm Wośñtn’z hard-nozd pspctiv, ɖ rleśnśp wɖ Britn, ẃl stl ysfl in liṃtd wez n historicli reẓnnt, jst z’nt ɖt “speśl” eni mor. Naćṛli, ɖ Americnz d nt se ɖt ǎt lǎd. On ɖ contrri, ɖ Ẃît Hǎs z at penz t stres “ɖ clos rleśnśp btwn ǎr tū neśnz”. Bîdn, 80, an old-scūl, modṛt Deṃcrat huz faɖr wz a yzd-car seilzmn, hz bn tipicli jenṛs in trayñ t bild brijz t ɖ inixpirịnst Sūnac, 43, a miłner fṛm a vri difṛnt p’liticl bacgrǎnd. Phps h z jst rlivd ɖt Jonsn, “Britn’z Trump”, z ǎt v ɖ we.
Ɖ Atlantic decḷreśn agrìd btwn Bîdn n Sūnac in Wośñtn last munʈ, ẃć wl s’pozidli incurij cooṗreśn on ny tecnoḷjiz sć az AI, advans bîlatṛl tred, n inhans ic̣nomic s’kṛti n deṭpṛtx́n vis-à-vis Ćîna n Ruśa, wz an xampl v Bîdn’z gdwil – n p’liticl nǎs. Ɖ decḷreśn sǎndd importnt. It gev Sūnac smʈñ t cro abt. Bt it z larjli lacñ in substns. Mostli, it repḷcets agrīmnts ɖ YS hd olrdi md wɖ ɖ YY.
Dspt ɖ slîtli fōls boṇmi, ɖr z no hîdñ ɖ fact ɖ tū līdrz’ vyz dvrj in funḍmntl wez. Bîdn z a vetṛn worịr fr ic̣nomic n sośl justis. Sūnac xibits scant îdīa v ẃt ɖt mīnz. Sṗsificli, Bîdn ʈncs, rîtli, ɖt Brexit wz a fūlhardi err ɖt hz nīdlisli damijd ɖ YC, ɖ YY n tranz’tlantic chīźn; h b’livz, c’recli, ɖt its bungld trmz stǒct tnśnz in Norɖn Îrḷnd; probbli fīlz, wɖ justis, ɖt Britn z onli bginñ t cm t trmz wɖ sm bitr impirịl leġsiz; n qt rīzṇbli dstrusts Trumpịn popylist tndnsiz on ɖ Britiś rît.
Îronicli, bt nt intîrli s’prîzñli, ol ɖt sjsts ɖs YS līdr me b mor in tyn wɖ ɖ cuṛnt stet v Britiś public opińn ɖn Sūnac, hiz ton-def ministrz n a Cnsrṿtiv guvnmnt ɖt hz loñ ǎtsteid its welcm. Rɖr ɖn moc Bîdn fr hiz gafs, hiz ej, hiz filịl imbaṛsmnts n hiz fou-Irishness, Britn, n ispeṣ́li ɖ Toriz, wd d wel t harṭli welcm him – n rec̣gnîz hiz aćivmnts at a tîm v hyjli ćaḷnjñ globl discord n dmestic strîf.
Bîdn hz aćivd mor radicl ćenj at hom in jst ovr tū yirz ɖn Baṛc Obama dd in et. Hiz s’xesz includ ɖ $1.9tn Covid-19 rlifbil, a $1tn naśnl infṛstrucćr-rnywl pacij n ɖ most ambiśs clîṃtlw in YS hisṭri, ẃć būsts grīn eṇji n hlʈcer. Ɖ Ẃît Hǎs sz abt 13m jobz hv bn crietd sins h tc ofis, pśñ unimplômnt t a 50-yir lo. H olso pswedd Congres t adopt mejr gunsefti lejsleśn.
Bîdn hz fest setbacs, tù, nt līst a siriz v rgresiv dsiźnz bî ɖ YS s’prīm cort, includñ on aborśnrîts. H’z blemd, unferli, fr hî infleśn. N oṿsìz, h mshandld ɖ 2021 wɖdrwl fṛm Afgaṇstan. Yt, forćṇtli fr Britiś n Yṛpiyn s’kṛti, hiz līdrśp ovr Ycren hz bn stroñ n stedi. Hǎ d hiz rîtwñ dtractrz ʈnc Ruśa-luvñ Trump wd hv manijd ɖs crîsis? Ɖe me fînd ǎt aftr nxt yir’z preẓdnśl ilex́n. Ɖoz hu lîc t rubiś Bîdn śd b cerfl ẃt ɖe wś fr.
