Poor old Kim Darroch. Forced to resign for doing his job. Ambassadors are charged with explaining coherently the situation in their adopted nation to the powers that be at home, and he did that with wit, perspicacity and insight. He revealed the chaos that reigns in the dark heart of the White House, and the truth of his remarks was what caused Trump to launch yet another of now famous hissy fits against anyone fearless enough to call him on it.
Of course his remarks were not intended for his ears, or indeed anyone outside the higher echelons of the Foreign Office, but someone, probably an arch-Brexiteer, was determined to bring him down. We can probably expect more revelations from him or her as they attempt to trash the rep of anyone brave enough to label Brexit for what it is: the greatest folly the UK has ever enacted upon itself.
One of the more unseemly spin-offs of this whole farrago has been the signal failure of Boris to offer any kind of succour to Kim Darroch, despite knowing full well, as a previous foreign secretary, that ambassadors have a job to do, and that he was doing that job exactly according to his job description. Of course I understand that his position in Washington has been fatally compromised by the leaks, especially since Trump said he wanted nothing more to do with him (once again showing that Trump’s representation as an angry baby was uncannily accurate), but he should at least have been backed publicly by the UK establishment until his term of office came to end at the end of this year.
Shame on you leaker, and shame on you Boris for supporting him!
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