Brown has outsourced foreign policy
Brown has outsourced British foreign policy
The special relationship is between Washington and Brussels
Now we know. Until now, we Americans have been wondering whether we were witnessing from the new boy on the foreign policy stage a cock-up or a considered change in Britain’s policy towards the United States.
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Celeste
November 24th, 2007 3:00amThank you Irwin, for telling it like it is. Gordon Brown's selective vision on the'SpecialRelationship'provides a great opportunity for the Tories. Will they make the most of it?
Ian
November 24th, 2007 11:58amAnd with his vision he will find his exit from office. This is exactly the sort of damage a left of centre government does to Britain. In a globalised world we cannot survive by redistributing ever larger quantities of a diminishing share of world trade to an increasing underclass who are more and more workshy and drug addled the more benefits we re-distribute.
wilson
November 28th, 2007 10:34pmNo wonder Gordon Brown is happy to get approval of the EU's Amending Treaty through the House of Commons. He's become a Europe and is content to surrender our sovereigty to the emerging superstate. Once that Treaty is signed, member states won't be consulted any more. The Commission will decide Europe's future. Brown's Britishness is a lie. He's a closet Europhile.