Barack meets Brown: thankfully different to Bush meets Blair.
"I love coming to Tories' seats and roughing them up...that is what elections are about". - John Prescott.
Gordon Brown jets off to Washington this week for a face-to-face chinwag with President Obama that should thankfully be radically different to the bloodthirsty warmongering chumminess of the Bush-Blair era.
Like their two predecessors both the PM and Barack have a fair old few things in common. Though unlike Dubya and Tone, these have much less of a chance of including ideas about waging illegal wars and blatant ignorance of common sense. The present leaders of the US and the UK have more positive things in common like the devotion of time and energy to finding a way out of the global recession that we find ourselves in.
I hope that our lad and Mr Obama can reach agreement on a kind of joint plan to combat the downturn swiftly, as well as one with staying power and resonance. As 20th Century history showed us, the US and UK are capable of great things when we all work together for the common good. D-Day and the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe for example. While an economic crisis and a world war are two different things, unconventional measures are often required to tilt the balance in both so I would hope that some out-of-the-box thinking can be at least touched upon this week at the White House.
In this kind of emergency, needs must. So here's hoping for a hitch-free get together this week. Together as one. For everyone.
Peace be upon you,
Sir_Red_Joe.