XPost: uk.politics.misc 
 From: pamela.ukpm@gmail.com 
  
 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.  Subtleties can be too hard when you 
 think only in black and white. 
  
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