Kim Darroch, Britain’s ambassador to the US, called Trump “clumsy and inept”.
Darroch’s leaked assessment started a feud which culminated today when Darroch resigned.
Boris Johnson, nearly certain to become the UK’s next prime minister at the end of the month, is accused of sacking Darroch.
Not PM Yet
https://twitter.com/NickBoles/status/1148928540395614209
Donald Trump’s Poodle
https://twitter.com/NickBoles/status/1148929897722798080
Craven Subjugation
https://twitter.com/NickBoles/status/1148932212525608960
Nigal Farage – Right Decision
YouGov Poll
Five Points
- The YouGov Poll is fairly evenly split, well within the margin of error to conclude much of anything.
- Nigel Farage is correct, perhaps for the wrong reasons.
- The problem is not the statement by Darroch but the purposeful leak of the statement.
- Darroch needed to resign. He was compromised by the leak.
- Resignation is the graceful way out, not a firing by Johnson.
Swearing Good For the Health
In other news, I am sure relieved that more people than not believe swearing is good for the health.
Swear early and often. It’s good for you.
Mike “Mish” Shedlock
Profane yet entertaining….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-CIggoU4VM
For fucks sake Mish!
Diplomats are paid to give their honest opinions. In this case it was leaked. The leaker should be punished not the person who wrote the cable. If people on the ground aren’t allowed to do their job without fear of reprisal then it is time to get rid of all diplomats. Another sad example of politicians caving to, oddly in this case a foreign power.
They absolutely should go after the leaker. That the ambassador did not find another way to convey that message in writing left him exposed if it was leaked. He has been around long enough to know better. Not the first internal memo to be leaked.
It was fine for Darroch to believe what he believed, however putting it in writing was foolish and inappropriate. You might say it was undiplomatic to do so.
A change of perspective is worth 40 IQ points. Slowly old Blairites are shipping out. Right or wrong, not all diplomats are created equal.
Please think on this too,
the explanation is the most likely I have seen yet – and it is the simplest
“Are all Western governments simultaneously degenerating into pathetic Clown Shows or is it just my imagination?”
I suggest the former
I think a lot of the politicians are looking at China’s one-party system and think it’s a good start. As long as their party is the party of course.
Are all Western governments simultaneously degenerating into pathetic “Clown Shows” – or is it just my imagination?
Any society with a central bank, inevitably will.
It’s a direct, inevitable and unavoidable result of all wealth and influence anyone has; having been obtained solely by the central bank, and the ever larger and more intrusive government it enables, stealing it from productive non-clowns on their behalf.
Clowns who owe all they have to the regime and its printing presses, are pliant sycophants and guaranteed supporters of the regime/”system”, after all. Productive non-clowns, otoh, are not nearly as reliably such.
The latter are hence best rendered starved of resources and influence. Left to toil in caves, while being indoctrinated from birth to fall for the nonsense that he trite and childish rituals underpinning “the system” is somehow beneficial for anyone who is not directly in on the graft which is all “the system” really is.