I am amused when I hear the resignation of Kim Darroch mooted as an attack on an apolitical civil service.Women Ankel Bootie Pointed Toe Elastic Fabric 10Cm Stiletto Dress Boots Casual Court shoes EU Size 35-40Ellie shoes Women's 709-PRISM Sandals Darroch’s rise to the top of the FCO was in fact a startling example of the politicisation of the civil service – there is no doubt that his enthusiastic support for the Iraq War, and for every neo-con war of aggression since, is what endeared him so strongly to the people who make the decisions on the top posts (and do not believe the fiction that ministers have no influence on them).

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I have annoyed quite a few people – including regular readers – for refusing to endorse any of the more baroque conspiracy theories involving Trump and Johnson conspiring to get rid of Darroch. These have the attraction of simplicity, Havaianas Slim Metal Mesh Flip Flops Sandals Grape WineJENN ARDOR Chunky Thick Heel Pumps Pointed Closed Toe Office Dress Lady High Heel shoeswith the evil Johnson and Trump on one side and the angelic Darroch on the other.

But many things do not easily make sense. The notion it is a plot to make Farage Ambassador to Washington is bizarre. If Johnson wishes to appoint Farage as Ambassador to Washington, after the summer break he could do it on Darroch’s retirement – which could have been if desired quietly brought forward two months with no fuss.

More to the point, the Brexit Party like UKIP is nothing without Farage. The idea that, at this crucial point,Sokaly Women's Walking shoes Slip On Loafers Breathe Mesh Fashion Sneakers Comfort Wedge Sneakers Platform shoesWomen's Chunky Platform Clog Heeled Sandal Two Tone Rhinestone Sling Back Stud Decor Open Toe Summer shoes VT02 he would voluntarily lose his political leverage by going off to be a diplomat in Washington is a nonsense. And – crucially for Farage – there is just as much cash in being an MEP.

We do not know who leaked the telegrams and why. One overlooked possibility is the intention was to damage Trump himself, by releasing Darroch’s criticisms of him. As I pointed out, Darroch is an abrasive character with many disaffected people who have worked for him around, and I still think that is a likely source for the leak.

We just don’t know. But what I do know is that the idea that Darroch is an apolitical civil servant is a nonsense.Guilty Heart Womens Gladiator Strappy Open Toe Platform Comfortable Wedge Sandals (8.5 M US, Beigev3 Pu)DoraTasia Women's Slip On Patent Leather Bowtie Loafers College Style Girls Casual Mocassin shoes I would remind you also that my objections to torture and extraordinary rendition were entirely in internal highly classified communications at the time the FCO first decided to try to move to sack me. I only leaked afterwards. So the idea that the FCO encourages honest and candid reporting is still more of the hypocritical nonsense being talked around Darroch’s resignation.

The media is full of over-complicated theories as to who might have leaked Kim Darroch’s diplomatic telegrams giving his candid view on the Trump administration. I should start by explaining the FCO telegram system. The communications are nowadays effectively encrypted emails, though still known as “telegrams”: Summer-lavender Spring Elegant Genuine Leather Women Pumps Lady Casual Platform Mules FretshoesLadies Butterfly Stiletto Heels Womens Vintage Stilettos Classic Casual Work Office Comfortable Sandals for Party Work Evening Party Prom Weddingto the Americans “cables”. They are widely distributed. These Darroch telegrams would be addressed formally to the Foreign Secretary but have hundreds of other recipients, in the FCO, No.10, Cabinet Office, MOD, DFID, other government departments, MI6, GCHQ, and in scores of other British Embassies abroad. El Naturalista Womens N5030 Soft Grain Muesli Mixed Mola Heeled SandalDonald J Pliner Womens Rue MuleThe field of suspects is therefore immense.

It is very important to note that this is an old fashioned kind of leak which was given to the mainstream media without the documents being published online. It is therefore pretty useless in terms of public information. We haven’t seen the documents, we only know as much as Isabel Oakeshott and the Daily Mail chose to tell us. Sistars Women's Lace Pearls Bridal Heels Wedding Party Diamond PumpsFranco Sarto Women's Ella Fashion BootsIt is not possible to envision any more untrustworthy or agenda driven filter than that. We can therefore be certain this was not a wikileaks style disclosure in the interests of freedom of information about public servants and their doings, but the agenda was much more specific.

Darroch’s scathing assessment of Trump is no way out of line with the mainstream media narrative and it is interesting – but exactly what I would expect of him – that Darroch shares the neo-con assumption that Trump’s failure to start a war with Iran over the drone take-down was a weird aberration. Adidas Originals Women's NMD_R2 Ash Pearl Ash Pearl Crystal White 10 B USNine Seven Genuine Leather Women's Pointy Toe Stiletto Heel Platform T-Strap Handmade Sexy High HeelsThe leaks neither tell us anything startling nor obviously benefit any political faction in the UK. So what was the motive?

I believe the most probable answer is much simpler than anything you will find in the vast amount of media guff printed on the subject these last two days by people with no knowledge.

Kim Darroch is a rude and aggressive person, who is not pleasant at all to his subordinates. He rose to prominence within the FCO under New Labour at a time when right wing, pro-Israel foreign policy views and support for the Iraq War were important assets to career progress, as was the adoption of a strange “laddish” culture led from No. 10 by Alastair Campbell, involving swearing, football shirts and pretending to be working class (Darroch was privately educated). Macho management was suddenly the thing.

At a time when news management was the be all and end all for the Blair administration, Blondo Womens Cassie Flat SandalT-JULY Spring Women's Espadrilles Flats shoes Casual Shallow Moccasins Velvet LoafersDarroch was in charge of the FCO’s Media Department. I remember being astonished when, down the telephone, he called me “fucking stupid” for disagreeing with him on some minor policy matter. I had simply never come across that kind of aggression in the FCO before. People who worked directly for him had to put up with this kind of thing all the time.

Most senior ambassadors used to have interests like Chinese literature and Shostakovitch. Darroch’s are squash and sailing. MINIVOG Women Ankle Strap Ladies Square Toe Thick High Heels Buckle Casual Patent Leather SandalsSkechers Womens D'Lites DLT-A Land EscapeHe is a bull of a man. In my view, the most likely source of the leaks is a former subordinate taking revenge for years of bullying, or a present one trying to get rid of an unpleasant boss.

Between just 28 May and 10 June Boris Johnson received £235,500 in “private” donations, to himself personally, as he prepares to become the UK’s unelected Prime Ministe

The blatant corruption of the UK’s political system is part of the reason for popular alienation from the ruling classes. It was Blair who elevated British politics to US levels of shamelessness in the matter of politicians’ self enrichment, and Johnson looks set to follow the Blair example. Ralyn Women's Professional Boot Instep Stretcher Large (7.5-9.5)Charles David Women's Prism Ankle BootWhile some may pretend to do so, I do not accept that there is anybody who is naive enough genuinely to believe that such donations do not influence politicians’ policy decisions.

Straight donations aside, the slightly disguised corruption of our political system should also be taken into account. The banks put politicians in their pockets not through direct payments, but through massive, often six figure, fees they pay them for “speaking at dinners”. That is how Hillary Clinton garnered much of her Wall Street funding. In the case of Boris Johnson, it is interesting that in the House of Commons Register of Members’ Interests, he frequentlyPhillip Dudley Brand Women Boots Female Winter Snow Boots Fashion Suede Fur Ankle Boots Black Brown Size 35-40Comfity Women's Relia Metal Heel Bridal shoes Blade Heels Wedding Dress Slip On Pumps lists the name of the speaking agency who paid him, but not who the client was.

Another way to pay less obvious bribes – and one particularly pursued by New Labour – was the book deal, where publishers pay massive six figure advances to politicians which are, routinely, up to ten times the actual royalties earned for which they are an “advance”. This only makes sense when you realise that every single one of the major publishers is owned by a much bigger multinational – for example until recently Murdoch owned HarperCollins.

James Reuben, who gave two donations totaling £50,000 to Johnson, is the scion of the UK’s second wealthiest family, worth £18 billion. The Reubens made their money, like Roman Abramovich and Alisher Usmanov, in the pillaging of Russia’s massive metal producing assets, which were physically seized by gangsters, in the chaotic US organised Yeltsin privatisation process. The entire basis of their vast fortune was the exploitation of assets effectively stolen from the Russian state and people.

There is a fascinating link here to New Labour corruption that shows how entirely rotten Westminster is. Many will recall Peter Mandelson’sDADAWEN Women's Classic Tassel Slip-On Platform Mid-Heel Square Toe Oxfords Dress shoesWomen Peep Toe High Heel Party Sandals Rivets Fashion Zip Design Gladiator shoes famous meeting with Oleg Deripaska and Nat Rothschild on the yacht in Corfu, at a house party where George Osborne was also around. The full story has never appeared in mainstream media, so far as I can judge.

Deripaska had been involved with the Reubens in Russia’s “privatised” aluminum market, and in 2008 was also involved in business with Nat Rothschild. Putin was determined to try to claw back some control of precious commodity markets from the oligarchs who had plundered them,Bamboo Women's Sequined Round Toe Chunky Heel Bootie and he started to lean on Deripaska, in ways which were quite threatening, to make some hefty repayment. Nat Rothschild had obligations to Deripaska which the oligarch was trying urgently to call in, and this process required the sale of shares in (if I remember correctly) Canadian or US aluminium companies. The big obstacle to this raising the needed money to get back to Putin was the high EU tariff on aluminium.

By one of those wonderful coincidences which make life so joyous, happily Peter Mandelson was, absolutely independent of the meeting on the yacht or his own relationship with Nat Rothschild, persuaded of the need for the EU to reduce aluminium tariffs and as UK Trade Minister and then EU Trade Commissioner was WeiPoot Women's Frosted Closed-Toe Solid Low-Top High-Heels Boots, EGHXH124748 very large reductions in EU aluminium tariffs indeed. So they all lived happily ever after.

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So Boris Johnson’s donations and Mandelson’s dealings all link in to the pillaging of Russia’s formerly state run metals industry, which legalised theft accounts for a dozen of the world’s wealthiest billionaires and a high proportion of its political corruption.

I want Scottish Independence to try to set up a smaller, more manageable national entity in which corruption can be better reduced, (and sadly it will never be eliminated). I find the insider knowledge I have from my days as a British Ambassador and from the connections I then made, Women Summer Sandals Students Fashion Ankle Straps Roman High Heels 7CM ( color Brown , Size 34 )Nine Seven Genuine Leather Women's Pointed Toe Chunky Heel Handmade Pumps With Bowweighs horribly heavy upon me. If I knew less, I guess I would be less sad and less cynical.

It has become my firm belief that the destruction of the UK state by the SNP and Plaid Cymru, and the purging of the financial cesspit that is London by Jeremy Corbyn, are both essential to human progress.

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With a callousness that defies belief, the British government continues to pursue and persecute Chagossians in pursuit of the genocide they initiated on the community in 1971. This blog has been campaigning for the Chagossians for over ten years, but following the recent resounding condemnation of the British government at the International Court of Justice, and the massive vote at the UN General Assembly for Chagos to be returned to Mauritius, Women's Wedge Sandals Ankle Strap Ladies Diamante Dress Wedding Prom Party Evening shoes SizeAilj Snow Boots, Ladies Outdoor Leather Fluff One Booties Non-Slip Warm Boots Winter Cotton Boots (4 colors) (color Natural, Size 37 EU 5 US 4 UK 23.5cm JP)thankfully the issue is becoming better known. The SNP are to be congratulated for initiating and leading a debate at Westminster this week to demand that the UK respects the International Court of Justice decision (which the Tories are refusing to do).

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