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    https://www.newyorker.com/humor/boro...Z7hu2fPzk9BfW0

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    I thought that was an Onion headline for a second...
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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    I thought that was an Onion headline for a second...
    Borowitz Report is The New Yorker's version of the Onion
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    Theresa May said that

    the views expressed in the documents are not necessarily the views of ministers or the government
    leaving open the possibility that they were...
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    Quote Originally Posted by huja:
    Borowitz Report is The New Yorker's version of the Onion
    Got around to reading it. Yes, a slightly more nuanced Onion, if there is such a thing.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    I thought that was an Onion headline for a second...
    I didn't even bother opening the link. I just read the URL and LOL'ed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    Let's see if they investigate this. But Farage is in line for his post from what the newspapers are saying...
    Sounds too much of a coincidence to have the leak just released by "accident". Someone did it for a political advantage. Who did it and who will benefit from it, we may never know for sure, but I think it's obvious someone saw the comments as..."useful" for their own personal interest. The ambassador got the short end of the stick, but that is how it is in politics.

    As for the broader issue of UK politics, I hate to say this, but we all like to laugh at how dysfunctional US politics is, but ever since the farcical Brexit, UK politics is really no better I am afraid.
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    As for the broader issue of UK politics, I hate to say this, but we all like to laugh at how dysfunctional US politics is, but ever since the farcical Brexit, UK politics is really no better I am afraid.
    I've said this repeatedly, its karma biting the brits in the arse....

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    Quote Originally Posted by hullexile:
    Not sure that was ever the job of a diplomat .
    It is absolutely the job of a diplomat. Telling the home country of the potential diplomatic relationship be it through bad/good policy, effective / ineffective governance etc. What they tell the other government and what they tell their home government should be quite different.

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    Here's a nice twitter thread on the importance of what a diplomat communicates back to their home country.

    https://twitter.com/EmporersNewC/sta...70613174243328

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