Gordon Brown tells Congress: work with 'your friend Europe' - Times Online

Gordon Brown will urge America's political elite today to shun protectionism and work with "your friend" Europe and the rest of the world to solve the global economic crisis.

In a speech to both Houses of Congress, Mr Brown will call on the US not to turn in on itself, warning that the financial problems facing them are global and can be dealt with only if they "seize the moment" and resort to international co-operation.

The Prime Minister will attempt to speak on behalf of the European Union as a whole when he says that - for the first time in living memory - the entire region is united in wanting to work with America.

[Murdoch Alert]

Love-struck Gordon Brown kept at arm's length by Barack Obama :: Toby Harnden

He is not a figure who currently attracts much sympathy back in Blighty but it was hard not to feel a teeny weeny bit sorry for Gordon Brown today. There we press were this morning in the freezing cold outside the White House watching increasingly frantic British officials trying to salvage what they could from a visit that was clearly going awry.

"But this is not what we negotiated," said one plaintively, through the railings, to a supremely unconcerned Obama aide. Another talked of "fine tuning" that was still going on, just as a Secret Service agent on a loud hailer told him to move further away so the gate could be kept clear.

We received an apology-laden email from the British Embassy stating icily: "There is no flexibility in the White House today."

A press conference that had apparently been promised had been cancelled at the last minute due to the snow (on the ground for 24 hours and forecast several days earlier). Now the British diplomats were faced with a situation of no more than 16 of the 33 press who'd flown over from London even seeing President Barack Obama.

Britain's Brown Warns US Against Protectionism
By Desmond Butler, AP

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Wednesday an "economic hurricane" has swept the world and U.S. leaders shouldn't view the crisis as limited to America's borders.

In a formal address to a Joint Meeting of Congress, Brown said that U.S.-European relations were at an all-time high and that the two nations must seize on the opportunity to bring about change. He warned that protectionism ultimately makes every nation vulnerable because "a bad bank anywhere is a threat to good banks everywhere."

"No matter where it starts, an economic crisis does not stop at the water's edge," he said told lawmakers gathered in the cavernous House chamber. "It ripples across the world," declared Brown, whose speech was applauded on several occasions.

I'm still not convinced all protectionism is a bad thing.

Of course...they are partners in this biggest crime of all times (worldwide man made recession) and are both broke as states and actually very rich as individual robbers...who would even like to drive them apart?
Maybe just those to hum they own those trillions and zillions of fake money they prodused...


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