In all honesty, doesn't seem someone putting Lammy in the Foreign Minister seat has any interest in it, but rather in PR and identity balances in his cabinet. MAndelson seems more a decision taken obeying master Blair orders, than anything sane. Hopefully the British diplomatic services can mantain a steady path of its own, though the last years seems to show a perilous one
What a shambolic disaster Westminster has become. Low IQ grandiose narcissists run the show these days, detached from reality, servile to the Blob, their horizons limited to the cheap and tawdry UK election cycle. Just pathetic people.
It is such a shame that the UK, once a great country, can think of nothing more to stay relevant in the face of the changing world order than to do the same as Poland and the Baltic states of the former USSR, which could never do much more beyond their hope to be the tail that wags the whichever dog happens to be opposing Russia on any given day!
I'd say the damage is done, Wall Street distancing itself from the Rothenchilds at an alarming pace. What has the UK/France to offer the US? Militarily, economically, philosophically, morally..., they offer nothing. What they want is some of their Ukraine investment back, that's what they're over in Washington begging for. Good luck getting that money back!
With all due respect to your former profession, and indeed, your former employers in the Diplomatic Corps, I think even the best diplomat ever created would struggle to get much traction for the British in Washington, the Americans are really not interested in what the British have to say about anything.
One of my fave diversions in the Gulf was watching Arab TV channels "news" casts. There is one thing I now appreciate which I did not then in the 90s: amidst hours of scenes of different leaders sat on thrones against a backdrop of military band music '(someone in Riyadh with a sense of humour would play either "Roll Out The Barrel" when it was King Fahd or the Monty Python theme!), they would discuss matters always in a civil tone and how "peaceful cooperation and stability" etc were important.
Ghandi was asked what he thought about Western civilization. "I think it would be a good idea" he replied.
Not one of our "leaders" in the last decades has seen any kind of conflict nor hard times, yet they are happy to send young people off to their deaths. The main powers in the world today are the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia, who hold the world's main energy supply in their collective hands. The imps who run Kiev, Brussels and London are nothing but street beggars who have nothing to offer but fiat money promises.
In all honesty, doesn't seem someone putting Lammy in the Foreign Minister seat has any interest in it, but rather in PR and identity balances in his cabinet. MAndelson seems more a decision taken obeying master Blair orders, than anything sane. Hopefully the British diplomatic services can mantain a steady path of its own, though the last years seems to show a perilous one
Who can forget Lammy declaring that the successor to Henry VIII was Henry VII? The man is an imbecile.
Or that Marie Antoinette cured cancer…..
What a shambolic disaster Westminster has become. Low IQ grandiose narcissists run the show these days, detached from reality, servile to the Blob, their horizons limited to the cheap and tawdry UK election cycle. Just pathetic people.
Hard to diagree.
Thank you Ian. Also I forgot to say (rude of me, my apologies) - terrific piece. Like many, I am following your work closely.
Thank you.
It is such a shame that the UK, once a great country, can think of nothing more to stay relevant in the face of the changing world order than to do the same as Poland and the Baltic states of the former USSR, which could never do much more beyond their hope to be the tail that wags the whichever dog happens to be opposing Russia on any given day!
I'd say the damage is done, Wall Street distancing itself from the Rothenchilds at an alarming pace. What has the UK/France to offer the US? Militarily, economically, philosophically, morally..., they offer nothing. What they want is some of their Ukraine investment back, that's what they're over in Washington begging for. Good luck getting that money back!
Oops Mandelson is a snake...Freudian slip of predictive text!
Quite simply & crudely, Dandelion is a snake & Lammy a moron.
With all due respect to your former profession, and indeed, your former employers in the Diplomatic Corps, I think even the best diplomat ever created would struggle to get much traction for the British in Washington, the Americans are really not interested in what the British have to say about anything.
Who ?
One of my fave diversions in the Gulf was watching Arab TV channels "news" casts. There is one thing I now appreciate which I did not then in the 90s: amidst hours of scenes of different leaders sat on thrones against a backdrop of military band music '(someone in Riyadh with a sense of humour would play either "Roll Out The Barrel" when it was King Fahd or the Monty Python theme!), they would discuss matters always in a civil tone and how "peaceful cooperation and stability" etc were important.
Ghandi was asked what he thought about Western civilization. "I think it would be a good idea" he replied.
Not one of our "leaders" in the last decades has seen any kind of conflict nor hard times, yet they are happy to send young people off to their deaths. The main powers in the world today are the US, Saudi Arabia and Russia, who hold the world's main energy supply in their collective hands. The imps who run Kiev, Brussels and London are nothing but street beggars who have nothing to offer but fiat money promises.