Like wood

Gordon Brown can’t have an easy time right now. Dreaming about nuclear disarmament and having to take tough questions from David Cameron once a week. And like that’s not enough even Nick Clegg, the Lib.Dem leader, also mocked the PM.

Mr Cameron proceeded to call Mr Brown “a complete phoney”, a remark the Speaker, Michael Martin, forced him to withdraw, and which in any case was not quite right. For Mr Brown looked genuinely and authentically wooden.

Nick Clegg, for the Liberal Democrats, proceeded to embarrass Mr Brown by blaming “the culture of frenzied target setting” for “the horrific events that occurred at Stafford general hospital”.

It is a bad day for Mr Brown when he is beaten not just by Mr Cameron but by Mr Clegg and we suspect that last night in the bunker some even more frenzied target setting was taking place.
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 Update:

Brown the dreamer

Mr Brown indicated that Britain stands ready to reduce the number of its own warheads as part of a broader negotiation involving the US and Russia.

Multi-lateral reductions in nuclear arsenals should be part of a new “grand global bargain” which will see all states – including Iran – given the possibility to develop civilian atomic power programmes under strict conditions, said Mr Brown.

Dreaming of a world free of nuclear weapons is a nice hing to do, it feels good and you sound like you’re thinking about what’s best for the world when you say it. I also know of people who claim that getting rid off the nuclear weapons is the single most important challenge humanity faces. This is a nice dream, and maybe even a vision worth working for, but that’s also all it should be; A dream.

As long as we have a world where we got one part of it that’s free, with democracy and everything that comes with it, and engaged in a war against organisations supported by totalitarian states the disarming of the west’s nuclear arsenal shouldn’t be anything worth striving for. Imagine a scenario where the west, and Russia, all abolish their nuclear arsenal and a state like North Korea or Iran builds one up instead. That’s not a pretty scenario.

Instead of dreaming about disarming or nuclear weapons we should work towards turning Iran, North Korea and other totalitarian states into democracies. When we’ve done that, then we can talk about disarming.

The ‘Special Relationship’ (Part Three)

The Telegraph has had sources tell them that President Obama was tired.

Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have voiced concerns that the new president is not getting enough rest.

The ‘Special Relationship’ (Part Two)

Mark steyn writes on the subject here

Evidently, the White House gift shop was all out of “MY GOVERNMENT DELEGATION WENT TO WASHINGTON AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY T-SHIRT” T-shirts. Still, the “classic American movies” set is a pretty good substitute, and it can set you back as much as $38.99 at Wal-Mart[...]

The ‘Special Relationship’

How do you treat an ally?

Well let’s ask Gordon Brown what he thinks. The gifts he had with him to the States to hand over to the new american President Barack Obama showed that he had put down a great deal of thought into it. What the gifts were?

 Brown’s carefully chosen official gifts included a pen holder made from a Royal Navy vessel that once fought to end the Atlantic slave trade and a first edition of the eight-volume biography of Winston Churchill begun by Winston’s son Randolph and completed by Sir Martin Gilbert.
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What he got in return from Obama?
25 American DVD’s.