Unlike Jeremy Heywood and Gus O'Donnell, Sedwill is feared and respected rather than liked. He has made few friends either in the press lobby or amongst MPs, including cabinet ministers. A technocrat, a cyborg security warrior, he is perhaps perfectly suited to the temperament of an autistic Prime Minister unable to connect emotionally with either voters or colleagues. He comes across as an alpha wolf, feeding with the pack, greeting and grooming, but ever ready to curl back his lips to expose his fearsome teeth and assert his primacy. Poor Gavin, who reminded me of our class idiot, ever entertaining but frequently caned, was simply not up to a scrap with a killer.
Thankfully the press pack are not ready to let it lie. They smell a story, and I think they are right. For some time Sedwill has been unable to kill claims advanced by Sir Richard Dearlove and Maj Gen Julian Thompson that the Sedwill-approved Selmayr-Robbins Treaty betrayed UK defence interests. Huawei is a part of the same campaign.
At the heart of it is Britain's future defence alignment - with a choice between an EU-led, Brussels driven military Axis or a US-led reformed NATO defence pact. The popular suspicion is that Sedwill favours the former whilst professional spooks and soldiers favour the latter.
Sedwill was caught out last year when Alastair Brockbank, then a Cabinet Office security adviser and now a member of Robbins' team, was captured on tape giving assurances that the UK would stay loyal to PESCO interests after Brexit, and would find a way to keep paying the EU to develop its army.
For the EU, defence is all about money, contracts and corruption. Military effectiveness is second. When one looks for the beef, there's a whole bullock being carved up right now. A trade off is rumoured whereby the Navy will contract out to Spain the building of new support RFA vessels in a quid-pro-quo for not niggling over Gibraltar. It's also being called protection money. In Germany, not only are there plans to abandon the US made F35 5G aircraft for the Euro made 3G Eurofighter, and even to contract H&K to develop a new infantry rifle that uses neither the 5.56 x 45 or the 7.62 x 51 NATO cartridges. Europe's big globals sniff the billions of tax money swilling around and want the snouts in the trough to be solely from this side of the Atlantic.
At the helm of the UK sits Sedwill. It is quite right that we should subject him to far greater public scrutiny - largely through televised questioning by Select Committees, the sole recourse that Brexit MPs have left to expose the truth.
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Sounds very Machiavellian, i wonder what really happened to Jeremy Heywood?
The Deep State is moving very quickly now to overturn Brexit and is therefore having to come a bit out of the shadows. Williamson had to go so that ultra-Establishment Rory Stewart could be parachuted into the Cabinet prior to Treason May's resignation. He is obviously the pro-EU Establishment's choice to be appointed as the new Front-man for the CON Party.
The pro-EU Establishment will stop at nothing to shackle us permanently to the EU and Rory Stewart gave a warning yesterday: they're prepared to split the CON Party in order to do it.
Great stuff. Hope you keep on at this.
Isn't Rory Stewart that bloke that looks like either Terrance or Phillip from South Park?
Something about the mouth cutting off the top of the head.
If your master plan involves "parachuting" a useless crawling turd like Rory Stewart into your Cabinet then you are fucked anyway. He is a useless wanker who has crawling to serve his own advancement as his only skill. If he is such a genius why wasn't he put in long ago? He is one of the remain crawlers with little to lose as he would never have got his arse off the back benches save for Treason May's desperate state.
Also --they can't bind us to the EU permanently. A leader with balls could undo that in one morning.
See the article on the Military Industrial Complex on Wikipedia.
In modern times I think we have the Military Industrial Brussels Complex. The Military aspects are toned down a little (it's the UK's job to provide the muscle) but the industrial and big business aspects are turned up.
We are better off out.
They use a lot of words to say little.
Can some of it be due to the US wanting other NATO members to pay their fair share, and the eu looking for an alternative and some mug to fleece to help pay for it.
Not really, Dee Dee.
It's the electorate of today, who are moving.
"Thankfully the press pack are not ready to let it lie"
Richard Littlejohn lays into him today:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6999671/This-preening-Sir-Humphrey-Appleby-needs-cut-size-says-RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN.html
@ microdave are you he from the days of MaxFarquar, May would have been torn apart on those pages.
Cheesy Edward--the only thing the electorate is moving are their bowels on remainiac liars and con men like you.
@ RAC - Yes, I'm still lurking...
For the EU and the USofA, defence is all about money, contracts and corruption.
FIFY
gareth
Apols - this got lost when I reverted comments settings
Span Ows has left a new comment on your post "Focus turns to Sedwill":
I remember MaxFarquar too, when blogging was epic. unfortuantely, as I expalined to ian Dale and co about 10 years ago, the blogosphere was kidnapped by the MSM and all the 'mainstream blogs' became just a bylin eof the major newspapers and magazines. This was "arranged", 'can't have independent interesting blogs ruling the web can we?'...we are a shadow of what we were 10 years ago. Guido* has blossomed, not many others.
* now, despite the wild child image, also mainly tamed.
On topic: Sedwill and his ilk are really scum, the thin lamina that really runs the county; I actually believe they are doing what's right. Doesn't forgive the treachery though.
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