Imagen de España en el mundo: Siberia

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Ha habido un rumor esta semana sobre que en el viejo club G8 han estado circulando documentos y planes en un círculo diplomático separado dentro del G20. Algo así como el G8 del G20 y de los invitados por éstos en Londres. Canadá es un miembro del G8 y se quejan amargamente sus medios por el asiento protocolario de su primer ministro Rudd.

Al menos, dicen, si Sarkozy se hubiera mosqueado de verdad y dejado su puesto, el ministro Rudd lo hubiera ocupado y salido de "Siberia", "entre Etiopía y España".

"Rudd fue sentado la pasada noche entre Etiopía y España -en otras palabras, en Siberia"

Critica The Australian que el sitio de Zapatero fuera incluso mejor que el de Rudd, y lo argumenta describiendo al "impopular compañero Zapatero, que celebró su victoria sacando a las tropas de Iraq y molestó a Obama éste mes queriéndolas sacar de Kosovo".

"La única manera de que el asiento de Rudd fuera peor, era sacándole a la cocina para ayudar al chef Jamie Oliver".

Edición de hoy 3 de abril, The Australian:

The Prime Minister is delighted that the shift from a cosy G8 of only the richest nations to a more democratic and diverse G20 has given Australia "a seat at the table" in reshaping the world's economy, but he could not have guessed what an ordinary seat he would end up with.

Rudd was seated last night between Ethiopia and Spain - in other words, in Siberia.

Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and Meles Zanawi are not even paid-up members of the G20, and were simply invited along to London by the British Prime Minister to try to make the gathering "more representative". Zapatero is the unpopular chap who celebrated his 2004 election by pulling Spanish troops out of Iraq and he annoyed Barack Obama this month by pulling his troops out of Kosovo. He was banished last night to a dinner seat that was still one place better than Rudd's. The only way Rudd's seat could have been worse would have been to have him out in the kitchen helping Jamie Oliver do the dishes.

The Australians have dismissed all talk of there being a class system at work within the G20, despite reports that we have been ranked by British diplomats as a "Tier Two" nation. And to be fair, Rudd was not totally isolated from the meaningful asides being swapped at the centre of the banquet table.