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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: SydneyRover on April 23, 2020, 08:09:06 am

Title: Simon says
Post by: SydneyRover on April 23, 2020, 08:09:06 am

‘’Harry Dunn death: diplomatic immunity for Anne Sacoolas 'illogical'’’

Sir Simon McDonald shows the government to be wrong, again.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/22/harry-dunn-death-diplomatic-immunity-for-anne-sacoolas-illogical

Title: Re: Simon says
Post by: silent majority on April 24, 2020, 04:52:06 pm

Quote from: SydneyRover on April 23, 2020, 08:09:06 am

‘’Harry Dunn death: diplomatic immunity for Anne Sacoolas 'illogical'’’

Sir Simon McDonald shows the government to be wrong, again.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/22/harry-dunn-death-diplomatic-immunity-for-anne-sacoolas-illogical

Shows the government to be wrong again??

Its the Foreign Office. It is part of government but is run on a day to day basis by civil servants.

And having read that article it seem to be a complicated issue and not as straight forward as you make out.

Title: Re: Simon says
Post by: drfchound on April 24, 2020, 07:32:11 pm

Yeah but that wouldn’t fit with Sydney’s agenda SM.

Title: Re: Simon says
Post by: SydneyRover on April 24, 2020, 11:07:19 pm

Quote from: silent majority on April 24, 2020, 04:52:06 pm

Quote from: SydneyRover on April 23, 2020, 08:09:06 am

‘’Harry Dunn death: diplomatic immunity for Anne Sacoolas 'illogical'’’

Sir Simon McDonald shows the government to be wrong, again.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/22/harry-dunn-death-diplomatic-immunity-for-anne-sacoolas-illogical

Shows the government to be wrong again??

Its the Foreign Office. It is part of government but is run on a day to day basis by civil servants.

And having read that article it seem to be a complicated issue and not as straight forward as you make out.

It appears tp be a top civil servant directly contradicting the line that the government has taken the same civil servant that did the same on another matter then forced to retract a couple of days ago, quite happy for you to explain any detail I may have missed SM.

Title: Re: Simon says
Post by: SydneyRover on April 25, 2020, 12:43:50 pm

There's something rotton in the state of Denmark?

''Top civil servant forced to clarify remarks for second time in a week

Sir Simon McDonald revises oral evidence he gave to MPs on Tuesday on Ann Sacoolas case''

Something doesn't make sense here, a top civil servant, you would be hard pressed to find someone with his experience and yet twice within a week he makes a call opposing the government's official line and twice he has had to retract it. He wouldn't have made that many 'mistakes' in the whole of his career as I would presume if he had he wouldn't have risen to this level.

What's going on?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/apr/24/top-civil-servant-forced-to-clarify-remarks-for-second-time-in-a-week

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_McDonald_(diplomat)

Title: Re: Simon says
Post by: SydneyRover on June 18, 2025, 02:50:21 am

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/22/harry-dunn-death-diplomatic-immunity-for-anne-sacoolas-illogical

Title: Re: Simon says
Post by: BobG on June 18, 2025, 06:06:29 am

I regularly drive that road where the accident occurred. Èvery single time I do I wonder at the craven feebleness that allowed the author of this catastrophe to walk away.

BobG