That’s absolutely wrong. Brown stated before the floods that he will put no timetable on UK troop withdrawals from Iraq and, since he has been in office, the UK has sent more troops to Afghanistan.
- That’s all very reassuring - except for the content of the news story that our postings here are based on, which outlines all the evidence leading to what will undoubtedly be a popular bug out announcement by Brown. We shouldn’t have long to wait to see.
Brown is now in Washington and, dollars to donuts, the meeting will conclude with Brown making some squishy statement that Britain’s presence in Iraq is, “under review” followed, as soon as he can get back home, by a bug out announcement, oops, I mean “phased withdrawal”.
The BBC will then give him the full Monica which should see him coast home in the next election.