1:52pm UK, Saturday December 04, 2010
US officials mocked senior members of then opposition leader David Cameron's party who vowed to run a pro-US regime if they won this year's election, new leaked diplomatic cables have revealed.
Conservative party politicians also lined up to pledge that they would buy more weapon systems from the US if they came to power, according to details on the WikiLeaks website and published in The Guardian.
The revelations came as the online payments processor, PayPal, confirmed it had cut access for donations to the whistle-blowing website.
PayPal said its payment service could not be used for activities "that encourage, promote, facilitate or instruct others to engage in illegal activity".
The Guardian report said that at meetings held before Mr Cameron came to power last May, some US diplomats were amused by what they call Britain's "paranoid" fears about the so-called special relationship between the two countries.
One said the anxious British attitude "would often be humorous if it were not so corrosive" and suggested it would be possible to take advantage of this neurosis to "make London more willing to respond favourably when pressed for assistance".
Liam Fox, now defence secretary, promised to buy US military equipment, while the current foreign secretary, William Hague, offered the US ambassador to London a "pro-American" government.
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