Brits officials or media seem to have made a speciality of bashing harshly and sometime fairly rudely as they were ongoing all the Olympics Games held in the last two decades or so (as for e.g. the people of Vancouver what they think of the British comments), so while that reflects very poorly on Romney's capabilities for diplomacy (reminiscent far more of GWB than anything), there's a great deal of people not unhappy at all he gave the Brits a taste of their own medicine.