He does sound like a school teacher though.

And today!

There is a thread of dopey amateurism running through many of the Trump administration interactions with the legal system!

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross announced yesterday that licences would be granted to firms to trade with the Chinese tech giant Huawei confirming Trump's statement.

Source

The ft is claiming Trump also softened US stance on Hong Kong protests to revive trade talks

Source (Paywall)

Seems the great deal-maker gave the shop away to restart trade talks without any concessions from the Chinese

And now
Did I ever post "you could not make this stuff up"!

Meanwhile the fight against Trump's travel ban continues!!

Now the poor bugger is rewarded for his factually accurate report by being thrown under the bus by the toady Johnson

This is no ones fault other than whoever leaked the emails.

Loz logic at it's finest, everyone not involved in the nexus of the event is blameless no matter how they act. This is clearly wrong, thanks for playing.

No matter what Boris Johnson says or doesn’t say, the ambassador’s job is clearly untenable. You get that right?

That's as maybe, but it's not the issue now. The diplomatic channels have taken a serious hit and, though his silence, BoJo has basically kowtowed to the WH like the slimy opportunist he is.

I hope the forthcoming investigation into the leak roots out the rot.

Republican lawmakers expressed shock and disappointment at the heavy defeat suffered by the female candidate despite earning prominent endorsements and being backed by outside groups.

Dr. Joan Perry, a pediatrician running in her first election, lost by 20 points against state Rep. Greg Murphy in the runoff to be the Republican nominee to replace the late Rep. Walter Jones (R) in North Carolina’s 3rd District.

Lawmakers said the scale of the loss highlighted the challenges faced by Republicans to recruit and get more female candidates elected!

GOP; ever more white male oriented, will likely fade away like the dinosaurs

You think so? so if someone said, for example, the below about Spanky directly, not his administration.

they could no longer have a political relationship with this administration?

Maybe he would still have had to resign, but Johnson, who previously, praised Darroch, shows himself to be weak and craven.

It’s not a maybe, it’s clear the guy wasn’t able to do his job. He was uninvited from a State dinner with the Emir of Qatar and a meeting between the UK International Trade Secretary and Ivanka Trump. How can you function as an ambassador under those conditions? This has nothing to do with Boris Johnson.

The ambassador was doing his job. He was reporting an honest and frank assessment as he should. You think he should have been reporting "Yes, Trump is a perfectly stable and capable individual who you would trust with your teenage daughter and the keys to the nuclear launch buttons"?

The person not able to do his or her job was the person leaking confidential information.

I guess they are now looking to appoint someone who will assess the administration as "Yes, Trump is a perfectly stable and capable individual who you would trust with your teenage daughter and the keys to the nuclear launch buttons", just so they don't upset the orange moron. How 2019...

No, I don’t think that, you’re trying to put words into my mouth.

The Ambassador has done nothing wrong, if the wikileaks scandal all those years ago have shown us anything it’s that all diplomatic missions communicate like this. The only problem is that this particular ambassador was caught out, which is why the sole blame lies with the leaker.

"A meeting between the UK International Trade Secretary and Ivanka Trump" WTF! Is Liam Fox going into the designer handbag business? Maybe Liam should call in on Trump's grandchildren also

BTW, following Mr Trump's comments on Monday that the US would "no longer deal" with Sir Kim, the US State Department said it would continue "to deal with any accredited individuals until we get any further guidance from the White House or the president".

"We have an incredibly special and strategic relationship with the United Kingdom that has gone on for quite a long time - it's bigger than any individual or government," the department added.

Cannot be easy for the US State Department to represent their chaotic leader!

He could have formulated it more diplomatically.


Something like: The Trump Administration is a equally competent as the British Government.

Hmmm....I watch closely this thread and sometimes the brexit one and read how much people moan and moan, and I think wtf? There's as much bitching like back home where we have a really nightmare of a government(s!) that dragged us behind even countries in our league...don't say these politicians are competent (Trump is the antithesis of) but how on earth are the more precious Efers affected by brexit and trump and all of it. Just saying.

We need something to bitch about. We've already solved the EF minimum salary, speeding tickets, and brown sugar so don't take away our last bit of fun.

All a storm in a teacup when you know Boris won a competition to write a rude limerick about Erdogan
"Johnson then offered the limerick: “There was a young fellow from Ankara, Who was a terrific wankerer.

“Till he sowed his wild oats, With the help of a goat, But he didn’t even stop to thankera.”"

Also don't take away our right to come up with the solution to the greatest political problem to beset
British politics in modern times - namely when are the British going to produce a politician and statesman
( or stateswoman ) worthy of the name, to lead the country as PM.

No doubt the Brexiteers must be cringing big time at the amount of lampooning and mockery heaped
upon Brexit Britain and the best the Tory party can come up with is Bojo over the past 3 years.