Haloface
06-28-2007, 03:41 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6246478.stm
- With Brown officially taking over from Blair yesterday with the Kissing the Hands ceremony (no hands are actually kissed, but the Queen invites the new Prime Minister to form a new government) and Brown moving from Number 11 to Number 10 Downing Street, it's a new political era.
I have high hopes for Brown. Big on foreign aid, terorrism, climate change and Old Labour principles, we should see good things.
He was right up there with Gladstone as Britain's best ever Chancellor. He's not a charismatic or "celebrity" leader, but an astute and hard working one. It's time some sensibility was brought back to Party Politics.
Well what does this mean for the "Special Relationship" of the US/UK?
See above. A lot cooler, IMO. I think the link above is right, Brown is virtually unknown among circles in the US, and likes it that way. Bush will miss someone to share his toothpaste with at Camp David, and won't get away with chewing gum and slapping Brown on the back like Blair - so perhaps Sarkozy will fill that void. Let's wait and see for his first US visit. He seems very much the "new" Blair.
Either way, it will be nice to see a reducation in British troops in Basra, and a subsequent increase in Afghanistan, where, IMO, we have a better and more justified job.
- With Brown officially taking over from Blair yesterday with the Kissing the Hands ceremony (no hands are actually kissed, but the Queen invites the new Prime Minister to form a new government) and Brown moving from Number 11 to Number 10 Downing Street, it's a new political era.
I have high hopes for Brown. Big on foreign aid, terorrism, climate change and Old Labour principles, we should see good things.
He was right up there with Gladstone as Britain's best ever Chancellor. He's not a charismatic or "celebrity" leader, but an astute and hard working one. It's time some sensibility was brought back to Party Politics.
Well what does this mean for the "Special Relationship" of the US/UK?
See above. A lot cooler, IMO. I think the link above is right, Brown is virtually unknown among circles in the US, and likes it that way. Bush will miss someone to share his toothpaste with at Camp David, and won't get away with chewing gum and slapping Brown on the back like Blair - so perhaps Sarkozy will fill that void. Let's wait and see for his first US visit. He seems very much the "new" Blair.
Either way, it will be nice to see a reducation in British troops in Basra, and a subsequent increase in Afghanistan, where, IMO, we have a better and more justified job.