London’s daily The Guardian celebrated the speech of King Charles to the U.S. Congress, with their account of the fantastic collaboration of the King’s team, #10 Downing Street, the Foreign Ministry—a study as to how to successfully handle their big, dumb giant.
They noted: “With the U.K. and U.S. ‘special relationship’ spectacularly frayed, a lot was riding on this, the most important speech of Charles’s reign to date.” The director of history and policy at the University of London, Prof. Philip Murphy, explained: “The fact that Charles’s address was so beautifully crafted and delivered with warmth was almost in itself ‘an implicit reproach to the president’s own rambling, undisciplined public pronouncements.’”
Named first was “Charles’s key aide, private secretary Sir Clive Alderton,” the “[c]hief point man for dealings with No. 10, an experienced diplomat and former ambassador who knows the Foreign Office inside out….” Months ago, a “first draft will have set out government, diplomatic and trade objectives and key points the monarch wished to make. Buckingham Palace, Downing Street and the Foreign Office will have been in lockstep on this—they could not afford not to be.”
The Guardian then turned to Lord Kim “Flood the Zone” Darroch, the former ambassador to Washington during Trump’s first term. As EIR explained back then: “Darroch’s cables provide an ongoing psychological profile of Trump and his administration, as part of the British effort to define a strategy which is ‘pitched right’ to contain the American President.” Then after Trump survived the Russiagate attacks, “British cables increasingly take up the question of how to manipulate the administration to stick to the special relationship.” He explained that “we have spent years building the relationships; they are the gatekeepers … the individuals we rely upon to ensure the U.K. voice is heard in the West Wing.” He named them the “Trump Whisperers” and wrote: “It’s important to ‘flood the zone’: you want as many as possible of those whom Trump consults to give him the same answer. So we need to be creative in using all the channels available to us through our relationships with his Cabinet, the White House staff, and our contacts among his outside friends.”
Lord Darroch celebrated on BBC’s “Newsnight” that the speech was “brave and bold and actually really excellent.” Without directly criticizing Trump, “it was full of implied rebuke ... signals of implied rejection of some of the things that Trump says.”
