Brown reopens 'the bridge'
- 15 Apr 08, 08:14 AM
WASHINGTON DC: Tony Blair risked alienating the rest of Europe with his claim that Britain and, let's be honest, he personally could act as a "bridge" between Europe and the US. If that was ever true the Iraq war broke the bridge.
Well, what do you know? Last night on US television Gordon Brown reopened it by claiming on CBS news that:
"I feel I can bring Europe and America closer together for the future. And that's going to be to the advantage of all of us."
What's more he reasserted that the relationship between the US and UK is "special". A hotly denied story in The Times claimed recently that the British ambassador to the USA had banned the hackneyed phrase but, talking to CBS's Katie Couric, the PM has restored it and added a "very":
Katie Couric: "Finally Mr Prime Minister, ideally, what would you like the American people to know about you?"
Gordon Brown: "That I'm very pro-American and I've always been so. I feel America and Europe, and America and Britain in particular, because ours is a very special relationship, I feel that America and Britain can achieve so much in the next few years."
No prime minister can, it seems, resist the temptation to argue that Britain alone is capable of guiding America to do right by the world.
