Why is the British media unhappy with Biden's Irish visit?

I think it’s because they realise the limb they have put themselves out on.

Sunak had to have been the most awkward PM in a meeting ever.

I think too Sunak was expecting a full on meeting with Biden but all he got was a coffee and a quick chat where as we got the whole deal with the Oireachtas speach and the state dinner. There's a bit of jealousy going on I think like schoolyard stuff. "Why are you friends with them I thought I was your friend why didn't you come to my house" type stuff.

I reckon it was and still is policy not to portray Ireland in a positive light as it might count as promoting nationalism. Like I think it was when Pope Francis came afew years ago there was a clip on BBC news headlines that went "The pope begins a 3day visit to (pause) ENGLAND!!" despite Ireland showing on the screen!

Have to say the brexity types outrage over Biden has felt like a lovely warm bath the last few days. They are just waking up to the realisation that theyve thrown away the "special relationship" and cannot grapple how we have obtained and are able to wield so much soft power without their involvement or permission. The lack of ability to have any internal retrospection over why all this is happening and they are being ignored is like the icing on the cake.

Well the king has invited Biden to the UK, so there can be the address to parliament, state dinner etc then.

But the reason for the current animosity is Brexit.

Just like the Brexit media were surprised and frustrated about how much attention the EU were paying to little Ireland in the negotiations, they are seeing the same from the US.

Even before Biden became president the bi-patrisian House Ways and Means committee told the UK that there would be no trade deal without guarantees about NI.

Then Biden comes along, probably the most Irish president of all time, even more than the Kennedys, because he is so familiar with his Irish background.

And no one from Brexit Britain saw that coming, and they are angry because they are being sidelined instead of being center stage.

But that's what Brexit did, it was the start of the slow sidelining of Britain in the western world.

What really galls the British now is the fact the "Great" is long gone in the term "Great Britain", both in name and influence. While British power has been on the wane for several years now, Brexit was the final nail in the coffin. How dare the President of the USA treat Britain as a mere side show, and Ireland as the main event.

Outside of a war, Brexit has been the biggest self inflicted wound a country has ever done to itself.....

It will take a long time (if ever) that they will be able to acknowledge that.....

Pathetic stuff out of the usual suspects this week....

I actually warmed to Biden more as a result of it.....

Pity about the poor right wing British press, Tories and commentators who are upset at Bidens visit. Pity about them all. For most of them, this is their default view. Hatred and jealousy for Southern Ireland was always there, just magnified by Brexit.

About Bidens Black and Tans gaffe, if anybody should be offended about this, it's New Zealand. The Black and Tans was a British construct. They need to own it.

Since Brexit, this section of Britain's ruling class has become over sensitive, childish, thin skinned and petty.

I think the British media is just expressing what the British people want to hear.

The problem is again Brexit, and the Brits wanting a trade deal, or awesome deal between the UK and the US.

However:

Biden favors Ireland and likes his Irish roots

Biden wants peace and the Good Friday agreement and all agreements for peace in NI honored

Biden is catholic and the Biden administration is also certainly not in favor of Brexit and the idea of a hard border on the island of Ireland.

The Brits hate the idea that Biden likes the small Ireland more than their bigger and apparently more glorious country.

The Brits dislike the idea that the US rather invests in Ireland than in Brexit UK.

For the Brits Brexit is the elephant in the room they never want to mention, but keeps holding them back in their own future.

Ireland doesn't have that problem.

That and clicks.

PUSA has never attend a coronation so it's not a snub. There will be a state visit in the future though.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/lady-jill-biden-king-charles-iiis-coronation-presidents/story?id=98377193

Personally don't get how any Irish person could keep such a subscription following the cartoon during the week. At best you are funding that, at worst endorsing it.

The UK conservative supporting press reaction is purely to try and make the UK look internationally important to it's own people. If they can convince their readers that there has been some major snub to the UK by Biden it will convince them that the UK remains a major player in global geopolitics and it's Biden that's the issue, not themselves.

The reality, of course, is that Britain has thrown away its strategic position as a key link between the US and Europe. Therefore it is no longer of any use to either Europe or the US. Biden didn't snub them, they're just irrelevant to him now, so he dealt with them accordingly. A semi-polite 20 minute photo-op and he then moved on to more important matters. The same way he would deal with the President of Micronesia or wherever.

All he wants from them is to work to maintain peace in the north, and they're not really even capable of that. So he made that point to Sunak and then there was little else to say. No doubt Sunak wants a trade deal or whatever, but he can forget about that, it won't be happening as the UK market is largely irrelevant to the US compared to the bigger guns like the EU.

The bottom line is that the Brits backed the wrong horses in the last 10 years - Brexit and Trump. This is the price they must now pay as a result - complete irrelevance on the world stage.

Agree with this largely.

It is also fascinating to see fun/derision being poked at Biden's Irish identity by those born in Ireland who would have a major hissy fit if you questioned/mocked/derided their British 'identity'.

You are either free to assume an identity or you are not.

Andrew Jackson was Irish, called himself Irish Andy. Are you suggesting that Irish Protestants cannot be Irish?

This is Bidens first ever visit to Ireland, never was bothered before, this is a political grift this visit.

Reagand grandfather was Irish, his father was very Irish as he said. Reagan was a protestant through his mother but does that make hi less Irish because he was protestant.?

Mayo for Sam thing was scripted as is all his talk in Ireland, the same with Kennedy on his visit according to Sean Lemass who observed him closely.

This is far from bidens first visit to Ireland, he was here as a Senator and as VP

It was actually who said that about Wellington after Wellington passed Catholic Emancipation

Fair enough I was wrong on that.