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British Ambassador Kim Darroch Resigns…
2019-07-11
[Last Refuge] U.K. Ambassador Kim Darroch (pictured left) wrote disparaging diplomatic cables about U.S. President Donald Trump. The cables were leaked to the media. Embarrassed by the publicity of the content Ambassador Darroch has resigned after President Trump called him a "pompous fool" and said the administration wouldn’t work with him.

The British Ambassador writes:

"Since the leak of official documents from this Embassy there has been a great deal of speculation surrounding my position and the duration of my remaining term as ambassador. I want to put an end to that speculation. The current situation is making it impossible for me to carry out my role as I would like. Although my posting is not due to end until the end of this year, I believe in the current circumstances the responsible course is to allow the appointment of a new ambassador."

Various British politicians are upset about the resignation, saying the U.K. government should have done more to support their embattled Ambassador. Ultimately this is all a little funny.... The British are going bananas; and President Trump doesn’t care.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  the state dept guys i know (secret agents, shhhhh)hate trump a co. they're a pretty snot nosed about it too. not very becoming........
Posted by: 746   2019-07-11 22:45  

#9  Ambassador Darroch certainly wasn't very diplomatic.
Posted by: Besoeker   2019-07-11 20:29  

#8  According to something I read the other day, james, it’s strictly seniority among their diplomatic service professionals. Not at all like we do.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-07-11 20:26  

#7  Do the Brits give out plum ambassadorships as political favors the way we do?
Posted by: james   2019-07-11 20:00  

#6  The only words I want to hear from foreign twits is "thank you" "yes sir" and "we're shipping out tomorrow."
Posted by: Regular joe   2019-07-11 17:20  

#5  I get the feeling that the Brits establishment still hasn't quite got over their loss of empire and prestige circa HRH Victoria.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-07-11 17:19  

#4  Another Foreigner office globalist twat.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-07-11 16:23  

#3  
Posted by: DarthVader   2019-07-11 16:14  

#2  From all their verbiage, it appears they're not really very sorry for his views. They keep repeating that it was unfortunate only that the uncouth correspondence was leaked.

"We should try to hide our hate more efficiently."

Let's see how they behave after their divorce from the Ewww!Yuchh!EU. If ever.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-07-11 15:52  

#1  The president could have PNG’d him for it, but didn’t. One hopes the next government over there more carefully matches personality and background with the assigned country, rather than going strictly by seniority. After all, they wouldn’t have assigned a Jewish lesbian to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan, right? It doesn’t matter as much for support staff, but a country’s ambassador quickly becomes ineffective if he or she despises his hosts.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-07-11 15:45  

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