Sedwill himself is said to want the UK Ambassadorship to Washington - a strange option, given that all his previous efforts have been to align the UK with the EU rather than the USA. Perhaps it is just an extension of a blocking role. The problem is, the popular and capable current Ambassador, Kim Darroch, is in no hurry to go. He is well liked over the pond and held in high regard, and importantly is not said to be one of the Remain fifth-column inside the senior ranks of the civil service.
So how convenient - and I suggest no more than that - that carefully selected secret cables from Sir Kim to Number Ten, which certainly passed across Sedwill's desk, should now appear in the Daily Mail, to Darroch's great embarrassment.
There needs to be a leak enquiry, of course, but I'd suggest that Sedwill is not the man to conduct it.
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When May goes?
If she goes, you mean.
Remember all that constitutional conditionality, about the Queen and confidence of Parliament?
I heard this on radio 4 this morning and thought it was a bit of a funny lead story. It now all makes sense.
Maybe our Gavin could lead the leak enquiry, he knows how it’s done.
To write this letter, not knowing that such letters will be leaked, shows clearly who is the inept and incompetent person in this ongoing catastrophe. Kim Darroch, has seriously damaged our relationship with the USA. He can hardly expect to be welcomed at the White House or State Department. He should resign - if he has any decency
DP111
@ Anonymous at 10:06
Agree, and to have written it at all, seems to me, to infer that it would be well received. One globalist spreading muck to his fellow globalists.
From a later article in the DM.....
"Following Mr Trump's state visit to the UK in June, Sir Kim apparently warned that although the president had been 'dazzled' by the pomp and ceremony of the trip, his administration would remain self-interested and 'this is still the land of America First'."
Good grief that's how it should be. Would that we had a PM who put GB first.
The true and private things, said by His Excellency, are nowhere near as embarrassing, as those inane and false ones, said publicly by his one-time boss, and head of the diplomacy, the then Foreign Secretary.
I refer, of course, to one Boris Johnson. I needn't remind you of all that he said about the French, the Turkish, and the rest, while in that post, need I?
Cheerful, dear boy, how as always you miss the point; the point being that whoever gets us out of the EU cleanly, we will vote for. Whether it's Horis, or a Transgender Goose on Stilts. Past caring.
@ DP111, 10:06
@ RAC, 10:20
Indeed. He is asying exactly what his bosses wanted to hear. Imagine a parallel world, May's visit to the newly elected Trump, the red dress, the sun shining, the holding hands; imagine a Prime Minister and her minions who actually believed in Britain. I was so optimistic back then, it all looked so promising...
Trump continues to rise, May and Co continue to fall.
Tearful Ted do you get paid the flat rate or get a bonus pro rata the number of replies you provoke.
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Elly, there's no more such a thing as a "clean" exit from the European Union than there is a clean disembowelment.
Surely you have grasped this by now?
Why else are the soi-disant Born To Rule party tearing themselves apart over this? For fun?
"Elly, there's no more such a thing as a "clean" exit from the European Union than there is a clean disembowelment."
Bollocks. Its akin to an appendectomy. The removal of something that is useless in the first place.
You call access to European Union ports, roads, airspace, fisheries, and to a market, which has given the UK nigh on eight trillion quid since 2000 "useless", anon?
How did you arrive at that analysis?
What a disparity; Mr Sedwill has the name of one of the writers of the New Testament Gospels and yet he seems to be the opposite of everything the owner of that name should be expected to be.
With the chaos, ruination and bloodshed in Iraq, Libya and an attempt to repeat in Syria with a self proclaimed Boudica leading the charge, I am surprised the dear Sir Kim has the temerity to mention Iraq.
Leila, I think you will find that Darroch's angst rests mainly on President Trumps recent cancellation of action against Iran.
Mr Hunt as ex-MoD minister was very keen to enter another ill-informed action similar to Libya and Syria, no doubt aided and abetted by the same woeful consular staff now having a hissy-fit, consular officials have their nose-out-of-joint that they were not consulted. Hence the childish language.
These patricians really need to be swept aside, I doubt Mr BoJo the clown is capable or even inclined to do that, so expect more of the same, more managed decline, more of the USA ignoring NATO-funding delinquent "allies".
Vote ConMen get Liebour.
I understand that the post of Governor of Rockall is vacant.
Interesting and plausible take, Cascadian, though your penultimate para is perhaps opaque. I assume by patricians you mean the likes of the ambassador?
I too was intrigued by the possible background to Trump's (welcome) decision on Iran.
You call access to UK ports, roads, airspace, fisheries, and to a market, which has given the EU nigh on two trillion quid since 2000 "useless"?
How did you arrive at that analysis?
FIFY Ed....
Can you honestly say that they EU will be able to stand in the way of European BUSINESSES that are clamouring for access to the lucrative UK markets for very long post any no-deal Brexit?
The EU are 'winding up' big business across the EU and I'm sure tempers are fraying with the attitude the EU are pushing over this issue - especially if (when) the UK leaves and all the negotiating 'powers' become one-sided in the UK's favour.
The whole principle of the no-deal-Brexit scaremongering is to force agreement BEFORE the balance of benefit swings towards the UK. If you can't see that then you are clearly drinking from the EU's tainted font of deceit.
Dave, the respective countries would prefer trade not to be disrupted.
However, the European Union's institutions are resolute that the rules will not be bent. Germany's main industries and the nations support that priority too.
That means that everything which is presently by dint of the UK's membership will have to be renegotiated, i.e. access to ports, roads, airspace, fisheries and the market. Either before or after exit, but afterwards the UK really will be over the barrel , caused entirely by its self-imposed blockade.
the respective countries would prefer trade not to be disrupted.
Indeed .... and why SHOULD it be? Intransigence? Jealousy? Bloody-mindedness?
NOTHING need change until it is required to change. The difference being is that if 'we' want to 'disobey' (pointless/intrusive/expensive) rules/regulations then we have every right and facility to do so after Brexit. Equally if we want access to the EU's markets then the respective companies that wish to deal with them can just 'obey their rules' to do so. Seems to work for every other country in the world......
This is the basic principle you seem to be missing - only the EU wants 'change' - business doesn't - and unless they kick up a fuss over the existing arrangements being left as-is pending any mutual changes then what's the 'effing problem?
The EU is all about control - nothing else. They couldn't give a flying one for business or individuals. Their sole concern is their own survival and management of everyone/everything regardless of the cost or inconvenience. Recall how the very first 'negotiations' were about THE MONEY. Once that was agreed (to their satisfaction natch) the way was open for them to be as obstructionist as they wanted to be. Had we held the cash negotiations until a deal WAS settled the whole thing would have been done and dusted two years ago.
Of course, this required co-operation from our own despicable so-called leadership that threw away every negotiating position we held to favour our own subjugation as was clearly illustrated by EU comments on making the UK "a colony of the EU".
Dress it up any way you want - the EU are despicable, corrupt cunts.
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