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    Re: 'e's gorn! - actually this isn't a matter for flippancy....the "Special Relationship" revealed.. Archived Message

    Posted by John Monro on July 10, 2019, 9:59 pm, in reply to "'e's gorn!"

    ... for all to see as the delusional "folie a deux" that it's become over the last 40 years. (Actually that's not an accurate metaphor, all the folie lies on the UK side, for the US this relationship is nothing other than the cynical bone thrown to the poodle to keep it obedient) We are now so subservient to the US and its infantile president (though that's an insult to infants) that our ambassador to that nation is effectively dismissed by him. How craven can the UK be. How politically cynical can Boris Johnson get? To refuse to back his own ambassador when he's under fire, for telling the truth? For God's sake , things just get worse and worse. So where is the media taking a stand on this, the commentators laying into Johnson. What a truly nasty man Boris is. The UK's Trump. Does the UK really truly deserve this? But actually all this is the ultimate and predictable consequence of Thatcherism- of neoliberalism and the dogmas of the market economy and cowboy fiscalism - we've been leading up to this for some time . When this PM could then state without being effectively challenged "There is no such thing as society....." and proceeds to produce an economic system based on this premise, then is it any wonder that eventually society, no longer being cared for or nurtured because it doesn't exist, will fail?

    This is what I wrote about this in Craig Murray's blog a couple of days ago in response to his first post about the Kim Darroch affair.

    Thanks Craig, as usual you provide another interesting and plausible perspective. Though I suspect he won’t have been the only person ever to call you “####ing stupid” – you have a very independent, indeed cussed streak in you, valuable no doubt as it is allied to a strong personal ethical stance, but it wouldn’t be surprising if occasionally you made someone frustrated enough to swear. (!!) But you are a good judge of character and I’ve no doubt that your assessment is likely to be accurate.

    The “Special Relationship” of the UK to the USA. Is there no-one else out there who wants to scream every time they hear this trope? It’s long since passed its use-by-date. It has been the cause of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the destruction of Libya, the increasing Americanisation of the country, its corporatisation and is the excuse for the determination to continue this destructive process. The fact that the present Tory government can continue to recite this mantra ad nauseam, when there is in power in the US the most incompetent, sociopathic, egotistical, childish and ignorant man – a man whom no-one would even ask to run a kindergarten, except maybe more likely to invite him to join the children (at their sufferance) just shows how totally thoughtless this special relationship has become. That the media continue to parrot this and never seem to question its value is part of the same thoughtlessness. A prostitute has a special relationship with her pimp. A dog has a special relationship with his master. A mafia thug has a special relationship with the godfather. So is the UK’s special relationship with the USA – pernicious and warped.

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