Quote Originally Posted by wiggin View Post
The BS reality TV moment was despicable, yes, but there are actually very good reasons why the US (well before Trump) is fanatically zealous about guarding diplomatic immunity. It's just that even when Trump is broadly in line with accepted US government practice, he still manages to be a massive dick.
There's no good reason for invoking it in a friendly democratic state, especially when it wasn't even the diplomat who committed the crime. All this does is breed ill will from the British public.