Malloch-Brown ... isolated
Posted on 11/12/2007 1:50:29 PM PST by Stoat
GORDON Brown yesterday quashed fears he wants to break Britain’s links with America — and vowed to make them even stronger.
The Prime Minister moved to dispel unease over a minister’s claim that the two nations would no longer be “joined at the hip”.
Malloch-Brown ... isolated
He hailed the US as “our most important ally over the years, a country that we share values with”.
And Mr Brown added: “The strength of our relationship with America is incredibly important to the future of the world.”
His remarks to Sky News left gaffe-prone Foreign Office Minister Lord Malloch-Brown out on a limb.
The toff peer — dubbed “B*****k Brown” over his off-message outbursts — was branded a “liability” by officials. His remarks raised fears that the PM wants to distance himself from the White House to avoid being seen as a “poodle”.
But tonight Mr Brown will pledge his determination to forge even closer links in his Mansion House speech. And he wants to go further still by bringing France and Germany into the “special relationship”.
Mr Brown believes pro-US French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel can create a better working partnership.
And he signalled fresh moves to modernise the United Nations and global financial markets.
He said: “As France and Germany and the EU move closer in understanding to America, then the chances we have together to reshape these institutions, now fall to this generation of leaders.”
Mr Brown stressed the work will start before President George Bush has left the White House.
Lord Malloch-Brown was last night looking increasingly isolated. A Foreign Office insider said: “He will probably resign in the end.”
Thanks for the ping, no it’s quite a suprise. But now France is trying to be the USA’s new friend and then the UK can’t let that happen lol.
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“Merkel, Sarkozy and now Brown.”
Rush has been talking about how the liberals claim that Europe hates us, and yet pro American leaders have been elected in the major countries of Europe to go with Australia and recently Canada as good allies.
Why, what did he do? This article really didn’t say.
MMB is a committed international socialist who defends the UN against all serious reform, attacks the Bush admin. over Iraq and the “War on Terror” (a phrase he rejects), etc. (but says he is merely “anti-Neo-con”). He is Jacques Chirac with a different accent.
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