Gordon Brown, Labour Prime Minister of Britain, has stated that he thinks the United States ought to lead the way in a global “New Deal” initiative. Some say this is paying homage to FDR’s “New Deal”, this writer however thinks that a global new deal would merely be a pandering to the disenfranchised immigrant population in many of Britain’s urban centres.

Mr. Brown seems incapable of rational thought. The Obama administration has just released a budget which will exceed a trillion dollar deficit. And has mired itself in the economic development package of the Gaza Strip, they are expending monetary and political capital in attempts to establish a rapprochement with the Russians, and meanwhile Obama’s administration is being railed against by the Republicans for socializing the republic and collapsing American values. Furthermore, they’re already pursuing a new world order by trying to ram democracy down the throats of two lawless states, in wars which even military men have admitted can’t actually be ‘won’.

Mr. Brown may have been the man who stepped out of Tony Blair’s shadow to lead Europe in the right direction at the beginning of the banking crisis, however, his competence has shown to be wanting. And apparently, Britain’s special relationship will continue to be one where Britain extolls to its people and asks for cash and America has to consider its cheque book. The fact of the matter is, if America continues to dish out aid and continues to build nations in the third world, there is a real likelihood that the giant will fall. Without establishing a redeveloped infrastructure and attempting to at least offer health care and standardized education, America puts itself at real risk of exhausting itself simply to put forward the ambitions of other nations, nations which don’t pay taxes into the exhorbitant American debt. Britain would be wise to remember the cost of maintaining an empire without getting anything back.

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