http://www.voxpolis.com/2006/reshuffle-chaos/ Politics, culture, surrealism... Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:27:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.voxpolis.com/2006/reshuffle-chaos/#comment-25 Vox Polis » Blog Archive » Bush demotes Straw Sun, 07 May 2006 16:50:19 +0000 http://www.voxpolis.com/?p=95#comment-25 [...] Any doubt that the UK’s foreign policy was decided by the US has finally been squashed - it seems that America now has the power to demote British ministers.  This story in the Sunday Indepedent argues that Jack Straw was demoted because of a phone call from President Bush last month over Jack’s stand on Iran.  I hinted on Friday that Iran was one of the reasons for Jack’s demotion.  As we’ve seen several times over the last few months, Jack’s views differ from that of the Prime Minister’s view (as dictated by President Bush).  Whereas Blair has said that no option has been removed from the table, Straw has said that an attack on Iran would be foolish. [...] [...] Any doubt that the UK’s foreign policy was decided by the US has finally been squashed - it seems that America now has the power to demote British ministers.  This story in the Sunday Indepedent argues that Jack Straw was demoted because of a phone call from President Bush last month over Jack’s stand on Iran.  I hinted on Friday that Iran was one of the reasons for Jack’s demotion.  As we’ve seen several times over the last few months, Jack’s views differ from that of the Prime Minister’s view (as dictated by President Bush).  Whereas Blair has said that no option has been removed from the table, Straw has said that an attack on Iran would be foolish. [...]

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