UK Defense Secretary Resigns..woop! [Archive]

ckaihatsu

22nd October 2011, 03:54

Still trying to parse this one accurately -- politics being what they are, this account is only a description of everyday common behavior within the social circles of the upper echelon:

Business cards

The defence secretary has been under pressure since it emerged that Mr Werritty, a lobbyist, had met him on 18 foreign trips despite having no official role.

Mr Werritty, a former flatmate of Mr Fox and the best man at his wedding, handed out business cards suggesting he was his adviser and was present at meetings Mr Fox had with military figures, diplomats and defence contractors.

Questions were also raised about who paid for Mr Werritty's business activities and whether he had personally benefited from his frequent access to the defence secretary.

So what's the story behind the story -- ???

"But when the story, every news item, isn't about what's happening in Afghanistan and what's happening in Libya but who said what to who then he put his country first and resigned."

Must be connected to foreign policy, given the guy's role in state -- so was he too lax in going after a piece of Libya for the UK empire? (The imperialist slowpokes are looking like losers now in the renewed push for neo-colonialism, as in Libya.)