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It's not a conspiracy, its an observation as to how politics works. If you want to naively believe everything that every spokesperson has said fair enough, but let me break it to you gently. In politics people routinely lie and misdirect, especially where sensitive issues are involved, and especially when you're trying to balance a number of competing and conflicting interests. One of the reasons politicians use spokespeople is to create "plausible denial", it protects them from having to say something themselves which they know not to be true and which could come back to embarrass them in the future.

Any seasoned watcher of these things could quickly see how Merkel was echoing Cameron within hours, yet her own Foreign Minister wasn't. Draw your own conclusions as to why you think the German Chancellor was on message with Cameron's timetable

<blockquote data-quote="Warbler" data-source="post: 2543181" data-attributes="member: 65228">It&#039;s not a conspiracy, its an observation as to how politics works. If you want to naively believe everything that every spokesperson has said fair enough, but let me break it to you gently. In politics people routinely lie and misdirect, especially where sensitive issues are involved, and especially when you&#039;re trying to balance a number of competing and conflicting interests. One of the reasons politicians use spokespeople is to create &quot;plausible denial&quot;, it protects them from having to say something themselves which they know not to be true and which could come back to embarrass them in the future.Any seasoned watcher of these things could quickly see how Merkel was echoing Cameron within hours, yet her own Foreign Minister wasn&#039;t. Draw your own conclusions as to why you think the German Chancellor was on message with Cameron&#039;s timetable</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warbler, post: 2543181, member: 65228"] It's not a conspiracy, its an observation as to how politics works. If you want to naively believe everything that every spokesperson has said fair enough, but let me break it to you gently. In politics people routinely lie and misdirect, especially where sensitive issues are involved, and especially when you're trying to balance a number of competing and conflicting interests. One of the reasons politicians use spokespeople is to create "plausible denial", it protects them from having to say something themselves which they know not to be true and which could come back to embarrass them in the future. Any seasoned watcher of these things could quickly see how Merkel was echoing Cameron within hours, yet her own Foreign Minister wasn't. Draw your own conclusions as to why you think the German Chancellor was on message with Cameron's timetable [/QUOTE]

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