As an ex-colonial I felt soooo embarassed for the UK a few weeks ago when the Foreign Secretary David Milleband was cow towing to Hillary Clinton in the United States. His claim to fame being the first state official to meet with her after her swearing in ceremony! I would never forget him waxing away eloquently in the best of posh British accents and millions of beautiful English words, and Hillary patiently standing next to him while he was even summarizing everything she had said! All I was waiting for still was for Milleband to bow up and down to the tune of his talking.
How times have changed. I cannot imagine the UK chasing over the Atlantic to an immediate audience with a new member of a foreign Government before it has sent out some feelers, and well in the old days it used to be the other way round. People get audiences with Prime Ministers in the UK. I then thought, well calm down, it's not really that bad, after all, this is only the Foreign Affairs Secretary, he is probably a little new and overenthusiastic and well, he does talk well, and he looks happy!
Then wouldn't you believe it, tonight Brown himself dashing over the Atlantic for emergency talks with Obama, and gushing all over Obama in vintage Brown style. Again, how most embarassing for the British! All I can think is that this silly man must have worked through all his hands of cards in the UK, and by some total lack of intelligence must have thought that he could build some extra political capital by this expensive dash to Washington DC!
I just could not look at this guy in the company of Obama. Obama in an equal dignified manner as Hillary Clinton had been a few weeks before, allowing this idiot Brown to wax away, albeit at a lesser clip than Milleband, and also doing some summaries. What in heavens earth is Brown doing there, don't the British have better things to do with their Prime Ministers?
How times have changed. I cannot imagine the UK chasing over the Atlantic to an immediate audience with a new member of a foreign Government before it has sent out some feelers, and well in the old days it used to be the other way round. People get audiences with Prime Ministers in the UK. I then thought, well calm down, it's not really that bad, after all, this is only the Foreign Affairs Secretary, he is probably a little new and overenthusiastic and well, he does talk well, and he looks happy!
Then wouldn't you believe it, tonight Brown himself dashing over the Atlantic for emergency talks with Obama, and gushing all over Obama in vintage Brown style. Again, how most embarassing for the British! All I can think is that this silly man must have worked through all his hands of cards in the UK, and by some total lack of intelligence must have thought that he could build some extra political capital by this expensive dash to Washington DC!
I just could not look at this guy in the company of Obama. Obama in an equal dignified manner as Hillary Clinton had been a few weeks before, allowing this idiot Brown to wax away, albeit at a lesser clip than Milleband, and also doing some summaries. What in heavens earth is Brown doing there, don't the British have better things to do with their Prime Ministers?
