What Is The Most Important Election For Uk Plc?

[London Calling]

In reality is the election of the President of the USA more important to UK PLC and the operation of our country than even our own election?

Three key issues for Obama.

The USA economic crisis - this has from nowhere brought down our own economy into its first recession for two decades.

The Iraq War, costing £2 bn a month in America, the same amount per year for the Brits, we wouldn't be there if it wasn't for Bush!

The War on Terror, again, if it wasn't on Bush agenda, it would not be Priority 1 in the UK.

As an addendum, do the scenes in America remind you of the hope when Blair was first elected?

A more LIberal minded President assists a Labour administration in the UK and a real special relationship occurs aka Blair/ Clinton and of course, a Conservative President boosts the credibility of a Conservative UK Government.

 

[beorhthelm]

i think the US elecction is important to all countries, but you over play it.

for one thing, we may well have gone into Iraq and certainly into Afganistan whoever the US president was.

as for the economic crisis, it did not come from nowhere and we are hit by it because the City was so deeply implicated in the CDS market. the truth is the credit culture proped up the economy for a long time, when we should have gone in to (probably a milder) recession after the dot com crash.

agree though that the war on terror has been overplayed due to the way the US reacted, instead of defiance and business as usuall both nations reacted by trying to legislate us into safety, trying to give the impression of doing somthing when really only restricting our freedoms.

 

[London Calling]

i think the US elecction is important to all countries, but you over play it.

for one thing, we may well have gone into Iraq and certainly into Afganistan whoever the US president was.

as for the economic crisis, it did not come from nowhere and we are hit by it because the City was so deeply implicated in the CDS market. the truth is the credit culture proped up the economy for a long time, when we should have gone in to (probably a milder) recession after the dot com crash.

agree though that the war on terror has been overplayed due to the way the US reacted, instead of defiance and business as usuall both nations reacted by trying to legislate us into safety, trying to give the impression of doing somthing when really only restricting our freedoms.

but only the Amricans could have pulled us into such Conflicts - since Iraq was not a terrorist base or in reality a threat to the US, would another President without the personal vendetta of Bush, taken us there? I doubt it.