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    Re: US/UK Trump spat Archived Message

    Posted by Raskolnikov on July 9, 2019, 10:56 am, in reply to "US/UK Trump spat"

    Admittedly it's The Intercept, and even more admittedly it's Mackey, but this seems to be a plausible take on this affair:

    https://theintercept.com/2019/07/08/trump-takes-bait-lashing-uk-ambassador-whose-private-notes-leaked/

    The scandal surrounding the reporting from British ambassador Kim Darroch in Washington is not that he was sending home his unvarnished analysis,” Peter Ricketts, a former British ambassador to France, observed in The Guardian. “It’s that someone inside the British system deliberately amassed a stash of his assessments, then chose the moment of maximum impact to leak it. This was not a spontaneous decision to make public a single document: it required premeditation and therefore an agenda.”

    Speculation as to what that agenda might have been was fueled by the fact that the collection of confidential memos from Darroch to senior officials in London was turned over to Isabel Oakeshott, a pro-Brexit journalist who is known to be close to Nigel Farage and his most important financial backer, Arron Banks.

    Like clockwork, the Daily Mail’s publication of the diplomatic cables provided to Oakeshott — in which the ambassador described a president “radiating insecurity,” whose administration was unlikely to ever get “less diplomatically clumsy and inept” — triggered a demand from Farage for Darroch to be fired.

    Leave.EU, a pro-Brexit group funded by Banks, then helpfully suggested that “Britain’s anti-Brexit ambassador to the US” should be “replaced by a favourite of the President,” like Farage. The group’s tweet showed Farage campaigning for Trump in 2016, and a screenshot of the newly elected president’s tweet from that November, in which he had called for his friend to get the job then.

    Given the odious participants (Daily Wail, Oakeshott, Farage, Fraudian, ex-Blair staffers, etc.) it's hard to know who to believe, but this seems to be a reasonable take to me.

    It makes you wonder how long they've had the whole "pivot to America" as a plan, given Liam Fox's Atlantic Bridge treachery (the Adam Werrity scandal). Another story that the brave, fearless journalists of the MSM turned into a joke "Where's Werrity" hahaha, how droll; our government being undermined by foreign states but let's make it into a joke and not ask any questions. Then Fox waltzes back into government with nary an eyebrow raised, let alone a question asked.

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