Oslo’s Christmas tree gift ridiculed again
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The large Christmas tree that the city of Oslo felled in a local forest and sent as an annual gift to London has obviously had a rough trip over the North Sea. It lacks branches and is so stunted that it is once again ridiculed.
“Where’s the rest of the tree?” »Asked the Standard Evening newspaper, while Norwegian news service NTB reported that others were questioning whether the Norwegians were just trying to get revenge on the British for firing football hero Ole Gunnar Solskjær as Manchester United manager.
Now, the Conservative Party’s top official in Oslo City Council, Anne Haabeth Rygg, has urged the Labor-led city government to pay for a much prettier new tree for London. Oslo‘s annual gift of a Christmas tree to London “is meant to show how grateful we are (for London’s help in WWII),” Rygg told state broadcaster NRK. âIt shouldn’t look like a worn out old spruce top. “
Rygg wanted the council to urge officials in London to buy a new, prettier tree and send the bill to Oslo. âThey deserve a beautiful tree, and I hope the board will agree,â said Rygg. He didn’t, and neither did the city government.
“We are doing what we can to make sure the tree is as beautiful when it is set up in Trafalgar Square as when it was cut down,” responded Oslo Mayor Marianne Borgen, who helped cut down the London tree. Rygg replied that “I think we have to admit that it is not easy to transport such a big tree in a good way to London, and maybe the trees in the future should be cut down in England” .
newsinenglish.no staff
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