XPost: uk.politics.misc 
 From: pamela.uklegal@gmail.com 
  
 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. 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
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