It's becoming, I think, rather more obvious that the former UK ambassador to the US, Sir Kim Darroch, was heavily biased against President Trump. His accusations against Trump's Administration being 'inept' is proving to be just the tip of the iceberg.
Here's the latest, originating as a news story from the Mail on Sunday, but covered here by the BBC (it's currently their lead story on the domestic BBC News channel, and even being relayed on BBC-1):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48978484
'APPEARED TO BE'. Not 'definitely was'.Donald Trump abandoned the Iran nuclear deal to spite Barack Obama, according to a leaked memo written by the UK's former ambassador to the US.
Sir Kim Darroch described the move as an act of "diplomatic vandalism", according to the Mail on Sunday.
It says the memo was written after the then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appealed to the US in 2018 to stick with the nuclear deal.
Under that agreement Iran agreed to limit its sensitive nuclear activities.
It would also allow in international inspectors in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions.
However, President Trump did not think that the deal went far enough.
The newspaper reports that after Mr Johnson returned to the UK from the US, Sir Kim wrote that President Trump appeared to be abandoning the nuclear deal for "personality reasons" because the pact had been agreed by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
It's surely completely clear by now. Darroch was working to disseminate his prejudices and biases by selling them, he hoped completely privately, as official, 'objective' reports. Seems to me that he was making an effort to poison UK-US relations, perhaps as a reaction to Trump not bending to Boris Johnson's views on the Iran deal.
'Sadly' for him, he's been found out, 'outed' by the Mail on Sunday.
What disturbs me is that the UK Government must've known the full range of Darroch's attacks when they defended him with their 'high praise'. But that praise has been unstinting.
Iran will be delighted, since it paints them as an innocent victim of Trump's so-called 'spite'. They'll claim that their trustworthiness within the parameters of the deal is inferrable, whereas the US, by contrast, has become an 'aggressor power' ....
... and all because we've a sick, jaundiced excuse for a 'diplomat' in Sir Kim !!