An appropriate description

It is not just its embassy building that has been “abandoned” by the British government. Some years ago, it abandoned the convenient visa application service on the ground floor, it abandoned passport renewals to an outpost in Hong Kong, then it abandoned a huge chunk of its beautiful gardens for yet another obscene shopping mall.
In UK, the government abandoned immigration controls in the 1990s, it abandoned freedom of speech – just this year it gave itself the right to snoop on everyone’s emails – everyone, that is, except MPs – and is regularly prosecuting the beleaguered indigenous population for what it calls “hate speech”. It is presiding over the abandonment of law and order in the cities and interfering with Christianity to enforce “new world order” political correctness on the Anglican church. 
It is abandoning vast swathes of countryside to urban development to accommodate an immigration-driven population boom (an increase of 530,000 last year). In short, the British government has abandoned any pretence at expressing the general will of the people. Everything I loved about my country is going or gone, and I weep at what’s happening.
Back to the British Embassy 
– I recall happy memories of playing in my band beside the lake at the annual fairs, the always interesting “breakfast briefings” with the ambassador, the regular garden parties ... But faced with the ugly reality of 21st century Britain, Lem Morgan’s spectre of the replacement embassy as “a dour dull-grey office block in some traffic-snarled part of town” is entirely appropriate.
Nigel Pike