Writing in The Mail on Sunday about the Trump administation's decision to kill Qassem Soleimani, here's the BBC's North America Editor Jon Sopel today:
Far more controversial was the decision to keep America’s closest ally, the UK, in the dark. There was nothing. Not a nod or a wink.
Maybe it wasn’t actually a conscious decision. Maybe – even worse – it just never occurred to the US to tell Boris Johnson.
Either way it suggests at best indifference, or at worst mild contempt for the Special Relationship.
Anyone would think this is the first time! I remember Mrs Thatcher was more than a little peeved not to be told by Reagan about his plans to invade a Commonwealth country - Grenada. I wouldn't trust our Civils Servants to keep schtum if I was in President Trump's position.
ReplyDeleteReagan, let us not forget, has been recently canonised by the BBC's Nick Bryant for some strange reason, despite the BBC having opposed his every move and devoted thousands of hours of coverage to the Greenham Common protests! BBC types will come out with any old trash as long as it serves the current narrative.
Just Jon being Jon.
ReplyDeleteNot in a good way.
But then, is it ever?