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but i would like to voice a word of support for Brown. It's not clear whether last year crisis really changed him or he is just pretending but since London april G20 summit it seems that he undergone quite a transformation. He seems to act as a believer in international aid, climate change, curbing bank excesses etc. Not sure about conbservatives whether they will continue these progressive policies of Brown.

I think that Brown will try to scare British public, middle classes by prospect of massive cuts on welfare by conservatives, and Thatcherism. Not sure whether this trick would work as Brown just till yesterday was firmly in neocon-monetarist camp.

of course NuLabor's foreign policies have been always awful and foreign secretary Miliband is disgusting but I doubt that foreign policies will affect much decision the British public will make.

by FarEasterner on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 01:39:48 AM EST
Not sure about conbservatives whether they will continue these progressive policies of Brown.

I'm not in the least bit in doubt: They won't.

That aside, talk is cheap. And that's all we're seeing. And, as some of us were fond of reminding the Kossacks during the last American presidential campaign, the past tense of "talk" is "talked." It is not "policy."

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 06:49:11 AM EST
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I remian unconvinced that Brown doesn't retain at least one foot in the neocon camp. He is too intellectually convinced of the rightness of their viewpoint to recant.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Thu Dec 17th, 2009 at 07:15:39 AM EST
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