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johnny9fingerswww.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/08/donald-trump-we-will-no-longer-deal-with-the-british-ambassador
Someone leaked the British ambassador's private summary of the Trump administration. Now Kim Darroch is toast. Whoever leaked this needs a horsewhipping on the steps of a Pall Mall club. Folk in the clubs in St James' would know better. Or ought to, anyway.
If I were an ambassador for the UK to any nation I would consider this very seriously. Kim Darroch has been compromised; maybe I could be compromised too.
As for me, in my nasty fashion, I think the punishment to the leaker ought to fit the crime, and the likely motivation thereof.
So I think, when we find him, we can sequestrate the assets of the person who leaked this to pay for the bill for the ex-Ambassador's pension and other costs. We can leave aside the costs to British business, industry, and the rags and shreds of its former prestige.
Let's make this society properly capitalist, shall we? The leaker has cost the nation, and therefore should pay for it. Debtor's prisons will be such wonderful places in our new, Dickensian society.
Mind you, it is a bit rich for anyone from the UK to regard any other nation's politics as "inept and dysfunctional". Something about Matthew 7: i-v. springs to mind.
Someone leaked the British ambassador's private summary of the Trump administration. Now Kim Darroch is toast. Whoever leaked this needs a horsewhipping on the steps of a Pall Mall club. Folk in the clubs in St James' would know better. Or ought to, anyway.
If I were an ambassador for the UK to any nation I would consider this very seriously. Kim Darroch has been compromised; maybe I could be compromised too.
As for me, in my nasty fashion, I think the punishment to the leaker ought to fit the crime, and the likely motivation thereof.
So I think, when we find him, we can sequestrate the assets of the person who leaked this to pay for the bill for the ex-Ambassador's pension and other costs. We can leave aside the costs to British business, industry, and the rags and shreds of its former prestige.
Let's make this society properly capitalist, shall we? The leaker has cost the nation, and therefore should pay for it. Debtor's prisons will be such wonderful places in our new, Dickensian society.
Mind you, it is a bit rich for anyone from the UK to regard any other nation's politics as "inept and dysfunctional". Something about Matthew 7: i-v. springs to mind.
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Date: 2019-07-09 02:42 pm (UTC)And call me a chauvinist, but I think the Trump Presidency is far more dysfunctional and destructive than anything you Brits have produced. Harrrumph! :-)