All this spin from Labour about how David Cameron can't possibly gain anything from the Obama victory is a bit rich. They keep quoting to journalists all the nice things Cameron has ever said about John McCain, rather conveniently forgetting that Brown met McCain in Downing Street and his press people were moving heaven and earth to get a picture of Sarah Brown with Sarah Palin.
Note the relish with which Downing Street announced today that Brown had spent ten minutes on the phone today to the President-Elect. Hilarious. And now watch Brown, Merkel and Sarkozy launch a fight to the death to be the first foreign leader to be received at the White House. If Obama has any sense I suspect he will invite the President of Kenya for a visit.
Remember when Sir Christopher Meyer (a daily reader of this blog, incidentally) was told to get up the arsehold of the Bush White House and stay there? Well I suspect similar advice has been given to the current British Ambassador, Sir Nigel Sheinwald. He's lubing up as we speak.
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TMI, Iain
Pray what is KY Jelly? I cannot see it amongst the Chivers products.
"Note the relish with which Downing Street announced today that Brown had spent ten minutes on the phone today to the President-Elect. Hilarious."
Yes, shameless name dropping.
"Sir Christopher Meyer (a daily reader of this blog, incidentally) . . ."
Er . . .
given the queue for that position they'll be airlifting in crates of crisco
After a year of blaming the USA for the financial problems caused by gordons policies I would think an invite wont happen.
"If Obama has any sense I suspect he will invite the President of Kenya for a visit.
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Would that be the President that didn't win his election, then got his functionaries to cause mayhem & murder in numerous villages ?.
Cast your mind back a few months - http://iaindale.blogspot.com/2008/01/letter-from-kenya-gang-raped-foreskins.html
I thought you were squeaky clean on the disagreeing with your self front- what would Hazel Blears say?
"That British Guy was on the phone, dont know what He wanted."
Remember When Bush used to like being Pictured next to Blair."Look there's me next to Barack Obama"
The word here is hemloc, are they trying to tell me something.
After Gordo's suprise win in Scotland he be in amongst the thick of it to elbow his way to see Obama.
I feel sorry for Obama - he going to receive a lecture on Economics from the man who screwed up our economy (an IMF opinion). I wonder if Obama's aides will put through the "urgent" 'phone call after 3 mins to minimise the agony?
I've heard that the first one will be Ahmadinejad...
Good Grief Iain. Are you saying that one of the principal attributes of Her Majesty's Ambassador to Washington is to have an intimate (in every sense) understanding of a lubricant?
Maybe so.
Perhaps the splendid Sir Christopher can clarify here. Perhaps he might also be prevailed upon to reveal the Diplomatic Service training methodologies and 'entrance' requirements.
I feel that a certain level of frankness is required here for those of us who might wish to carry on the noble tradition and travel abroad on Her Majesty's Service.
" If Obama has any sense I suspect he will invite the President of Kenya for a visit."
To ask him to destroy the relevant page of the Mombasa register of births, no doubt.
Anon 1:53 am KY Jelly is, I gather, a condiment from Kentucky. It has arather bland taste so most Americans prefer mustard and catsup on their boiled sausages.
Yuck?
In the spirit of your post ..(Europrats trying to muscle in on our triumph for democracy while denying their own people the fundamental democratic right to vote on a constitution).....
If I were Obama I'd invite the following to the White House - in order of preference:
The Queen
Nelson Mandela
.... er that's it!
I am sure Sir Nigel will no doubt bow to your greater experience in this particular area ...
PS KY is a jelly not a relish!
PPS For Unsworth. Her [b]Britannic[/b] Majesty if you don't mind!
Iain, this is puerile and disgusting - you demean yourself with such coarse, crude expression.
Desperate stuff Iain, really. And as Whiffler said the President of Kenya would be a very poor choice indeed. Prime Minister perhaps. But that would be awkward too really now wouldn't it.
It was Sarkozy who was openly supportive of Obama and said he would like him to be elected way back this Summer, when Obama visitd him incurring the wrath of McCain team. It was Merkel who gave Obama a very warm welcome and it was in Berlin he addressed a crowd of 200,000.
Why would Obama want Brown? Obama would consider Blair and Brown as the pair who offered so much support to Bush. Brown cannot invent himself as 'change' when he has been part of Blair agenda in Iraq and never once expressed his doubt. He is closer to Merkel and Sarkozy in terms of Iraq and their attitude to Bush and Iraq.
Brown considers Democrats as similar to Labour. Democrats are more like the ONE NATION TORIES. A few in the Democratic parties are hard conservatives 'Regan
Democrats' much like the Eurosceptics and the likes of Redwood.
In any other country the Labour would be finished by now.
Just to add what I said. The following is an extract from today's NYTIMES:
" In a makeshift office in Chicago, he also spoke to nine world leaders, including President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel and Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany"
So Brown is among the NINE leaders Obama spoke to. We all know how Brown exaggerates!!
About Brown who has messed up the economy in this country acting as Obama's economic mentor, Obama has set up a 17-member council which includes names such as Paul Volker, previous secretaries of treasury, business leaders like Warren Buffet etc.. Who wants Brown? It is again a spin from Brown who knows more about 'Scottish Labour Party History' by way of his PhD thesis than economics.
Anon 11:54 AM
I wasn't aware of any other 'Majesty'. 'Britannic' is correct, of course, but sadly these days quite superfluous.
This vulgar post is not one of your finer moments, Iain.
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