XPost: uk.politics.misc 
 From: jenningsltd@fastmail.fm 
  
 On 13/07/2019 22:22, 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. 
  
 And your evidence for that is...? 
  
 >> , nor was it the government's to make. 
 > 
 > Of course the government could have sacked him. 
  
 They could have done that. 
  
 But didn't. 
  
 > 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. 
  
 Evidence? 
  
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