The Yes Men chime in.
Posted on 01/22/2008 12:03:17 PM PST by BGHater
The Prime Minister has called for a radical reform of international institutions ranging from the United Nations to the World Bank.
In a speech to business leaders in the Indian capital New Delhi, Mr Brown said the UN Security Council should be expanded to include places for nations such as India, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) should have a new "early warning" role to head off crises such as Northern Rock.
He also said the World Bank should focus more on increasing clean energy and the environment.
He said: "To succeed now, the post-war rules of the game and the post-war international institutions must be radically reformed to fit our world of globalisation.
"We can and must do more to make our global institutions more representative and I support India's bid for a permanent place, with others, on an expanded UN Security Council.
"And I support changes to the IMF, World Bank and the G8 that reflect the rise of India and Asia."
Mr Brown went on to suggest all countries strengthen networks of global law enforcement authorities, intelligence agents, police and financial regulators, in a bid to combat terrorism worldwide.
And to tackle the problem of struggling states, Mr Brown propsed a UN envoy be appointed to failing nations to coordiinate peacekeeping and recovery after conflict.
The speech was billed by aides as a "significant" statement of his views on a new world order.
They also said that the UK believes Brazil, Japan, Germany and an African country should be allowed to join the UN Security Council.
After the speech, Mr Brown was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters at the University of Delhi - a sprawling campus with 250,000 students.
The Prime Minister joked: "I was once, before I descended into politics, a university lecturer myself. Universities should always stand for objectivity, for rationality, for the honest pursuit of the truth: all the qualities you have to leave behind when you go into politics."
Okay! You heard the man. Everyone with a last name starting with the letter “Z”, get in line, tallest to shortest...
Every time I read something like this I always picture the congress in Star Wars. Floating around making there speeches.
It amazes me that only politicians, that have seen the total failure of the UN believe more of it is needed and would work.
Memo to Mr. Brown: If India wants a seat on the UN Security Council, they could have ours. And they could move the whole caboose to Calcutta.
The dynamic duo of population control. Often confused with marxists, although marxists are merely their dupes. Brown can go sit in Hillary!08's corner with the other Rockefellers.
I call for Islam to convert into Buddhism
The chorus clamoring for a New World Order never seems to get tired with certain politicians.
I guess Brown wants to finish what Hitler started.
You are too kind. I'd propose Harare, Zimbabwe. Our dues could be supplied each year after 11 month's worth of inflation.
I thought George H.W. Bush did that. Maybe time is running backwards.
Brown is displaying that ongoing UK trait of falling all over themselves to apologize and atone for the greatest empire the world has ever seen.
Oh geez..not another New World Odor! Oh the inanity!
Wouldn’t this be the “New, New World Order” - since we already had the original “New World Order” back in 91?
Is the the old New World Order, a the new New World Order?
If the World Bank and the UN are the solution to all our problems, it sounds like the old one to me.
Gordy ...FO mate!
mr. brown which “african country,” and why would you list several individual countries and then just say africa? pandering? i did’t think so /sarc>
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