The Bitter Feud on Downing Street (Brown and Darling duke it out)

The Daily Beast ^ | 3/29/2009 | Stryker McGuire

[SonOfDarkSkies]

A British prime minister feuding with his Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sound familiar? It will to anyone with a cursory knowledge of recent British politics. The bitter feud between Tony Blair and his Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, was the defining dysfunction of Blair’s decade in office. It got so bad in the final months of Blair’s tenure that one Labour MP likened the quarrel to “an episode of ‘The Sopranos’.” Now, history looks to be repeating itself as Brown locks horns with his chancellor, Alistair Darling, over the size of a stimulus package to revive the British economy.

Having pumped extra money into the economy late last year, Brown wants to do it again. Darling, echoing a view on the Continent and among other nations not weighed down by the kind of indebtedness that afflicts Britain and the United States, doesn’t think Britain can afford it. He argues quietly that the supposed solution would be worse than the putative cure. The conflict is all the more embarrassing for Brown just now because he’s hosting the G20 Summit in London next week (April 2). One of Brown’s top agenda items? A global stimulus package.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

It is my hope that Obama receives in Europe the same rebuke that Brown has received regarding his massive spending plans.

[DGHoodini]

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