XPost: uk.politics.misc 
 From: hex@unseen.ac.am 
  
 On 14/07/2019 12:01, Pamela wrote: 
 > On 08:58  14 Jul 2019, Keema's Nan  wrote: 
 >> On 13 Jul 2019, Pamela wrote 
 >> (in article ): 
 >>> On 22:22 13 Jul 2019, Ian Jackson 
 >>> wrote: 
 >>>> In message, Norman Wells 
 >>>>   writes 
  
 >>>>> Anyway, it was Darroch who decided his position was untenable, and 
 >>>>> he's the person who should know. The UK government wasn't involved 
 >>>>> in his decision 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Oh, I bet they were. I expect the phone line between London and 
 >>>> Washington was red hot for several hours. 
 >>>> 
 >>>>> , nor was it the government's to make. 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Of course the government could have sacked him. However, they and 
 >>>> Darroch probably decided on a course of action that is hoped will, as 
 >>>> quickly as possible, minimise the amount of egg on the UK's face, and 
 >>>> at the same time get us back into Trump's good books. 
 >>> 
 >>> I don't think Norman can see this. He has a very deterministic 
 >>> factually- simple way of looking at the world. 
 >> 
 >> That is a very tactful way of saying he is as thick as two short planks. 
 >> 
 >> I must remember this for future reference. 
 > 
 > Norman has some cognitive problem which make him see everything in a 
 > supremely literal way.  That's why I say, in all honesty, that he displays 
 > signs of Asperger's. 
 > 
 > The Asperger's could be a life-long trait that was masked by other 
 > cognitive methods -- however as he approaches decrepitude, the underlying 
 > malady reveals itself. 
 > 
 > Some old men just become stubborn, repetitive and quick to anger as they 
 > age but with Norman there's also extreme black and white thinking which he 
 > mistakenly sees as a rapier-like incisive insight. 
  
 I can't help being right. 
  
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