Gordon Brown will seek to make common cause with President Obama next week over the best way to take the world out of recession.
The Prime Minister aims to use a two-day trip to Washington to bond with the US President over the issue on which Mr Brown has staked his damaged political reputation: the massive state-funded stimulus packages to the world’s stricken economies.
One Downing Street aide described their White House meeting as an attempt to present a united front against the “forces of global conservatism”.
Oh, do be careful with pins near balloons filled with hot air!
Are we sending barges of cash to Albion, too?
“The forces of global conservatism?” This means, perhaps, people who have some idea of what to do in a business downturn other than over-spend and go deeper into debt?
That phrase really is an ominous sign. We already know how easy it is to demonize your opponents. Now, it sounds as if they are setting it up so that if anything does go wrong, they’ll be able to blame it on “the forces of global conservatism.”
Aack… I’m familiar with Godwin’s Law. But it really is difficult not to draw parallels with certain totalitarian regimes in the past which have used such vague and shadowy enemies to explain their own mistakes.
Brown’s “hopes of recovery” refer to his own electoral standing. 20 points behind, he faces annihilation at the polls and hopes Obama may presage his (Brown’s) political recovery.
with headlines like these, it’s getting harder to distinguish between real news and The Onion…
Perhaps he’s really coming to plead for asylum in the U.S.
Well, Brown has all but destroyed Britain, and his hoped-for buddy, Obama, appears hell-bent on doing the same here.