UK and USA: officially still best mates

There's been a lot of talk in recent years about the 'special relationship' between the UK and America - almost as though we're dealing less with diplomatic relations and more with that annoying couple who sit next to you down the pub, intent on describing their 'hilarious' holiday together in soul-raping detail.

This was, as any fool knows, primarily a Blair-Bush scenario. Yet Gordon Brown - now well into his Pope-overshadowed sojourn to the USA - isn't going to let the marriage grow stagnant. He's more than happy to reaffirm just how amazingly close both nations are - and also to waffle on about the 'ambitious agenda' both he and President Bush apparently share. Jesus, guys ... you're keeping that one well-hidden.

At a joint press conference with the chimp-in-chief, Bush described Brown as 'a good friend', while the compliment was reciprocated when the PM announced that the world owed Georgie-boy 'a great deal of gratitude' for combating terrorism so effectively.

Most interesting, however, was the pair's joint criticism of the current mayhem in Zimbabwe, and the desperate attempts of sociopath Robert Mugabe to keep some sort of strangehold on power. Bush said:

"You can't have elections unless you put the results out. What kind of election is it?"

To which a sizeable proportion of his citizenship winced, muttering something about 'people in glass houses' and 'thank Christ we've only got another nine months left with this lunatic in charge.'

Not that any such concerns have affected Brown's trajectory, however - he's off to the Kennedy Memorial Library today to give a speech about financial and political reform. According to reports, he's eager to move on from the 'hostile' legacy of the Iraq war.

Good luck with that, Gord...

Written by C J Davies on 18 Apr 2008 12:46 AM. Permalink