Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tony Blair. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Tony Blair's Relationship With News Corp And Rupert Murdoch Heavily Scrutinized At Hearing


Tony Blair

Yesterday, former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, testified at the Leveson hearing in London, England, regarding phone hacking by News Corp. Blair was asked about his friendship with News Corp CEO, Rupert Murdoch, whose company has criminally phone hacked, illegally wiretapped, computer hacked and stalked people, for stories to print in his News International newspapers and broadcast on Sky News in Britain and Fox News in America.


Rupert Murdoch and his equally crooked children James Murdoch, Elisabeth Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch

 He was also asked about being godfather to one of Murdoch's children, with the public wondering if it impacted his judgment regarding the News Corp CEO's behavior. Blair acknowledged their friendship, but denied all wrongdoing in the matter. During the hearing, a man burst through into the main room via a corridor and began yelling Blair should be arrested for being "a war criminal." 

  
Rupert Murdoch and wife Wendi Murdoch. Blair is the godfather of one of their two daughters.

The man sensationally alleged Blair was paid by American bank JP Morgan Chase, which bought up Washington Mutual a few years ago, to engage in war crimes in Iraq, with former U.S. President, George W. Bush. Never a dull moment...

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Monday, September 26, 2011

Former British Prime Minister Accused Of Sexual Affair With Billion Dollar Israeli Heiress


Tony Blair: It's not my fault she thinks I'm hot!

Tony Blair, the former Prime Minister of Britain, who is married to barrister, Cherie Blair, is being accused in the press of having a sexual affair with billion dollar Israeli heiress, Ofra Strauss. She is said to be a fan of Blair and has been seen in his company a number of times.

Cherie Blair: I really don't want to have to knock them out

The prominent Jewish website, Ynet News, published an article warnings Mrs. Blair that Strauss was after her "milky...alpha male" husband and to be careful. "Milky" is codeword for "pasty" - all those tanned, sun kissed Jewish people running around Israel and my poor Brit straight from under London's gray skies must have stuck out like a sore thumb.

Ofra Strauss and Cherie Blair

Yes, Blair is an attractive man, but he needs to keep it zipped! Cherie is an attorney. By the time she gets done with him in court, he'll be on the dole (welfare) and asking David Cameron to let him bunk with him. A "woman female lawyer scorned" would be his worst legal nightmare.

Monday, September 5, 2011

Tony Blair Is The Godfather...Of Rupert Murdoch's Child

Former PM Under Fire For Said Connection

Tony Blair: it's just one - I'm not the godfather of all his kids!

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is the godfather...no, not like in the movie. He is the godfather of one of Rupert Murdoch's children with third wife, Wendi "Smack A Pie Thrower" Murdoch (still laughing at Murdoch getting foamed).

Rupert Murdoch to Tony Blair: I've got you right where I want you

This week, Britons are incensed to learn of the tie between the two, as the News Corp CEO's has been criminally phone hacking and stalking thousands of people in Britain, America and Australia, among other nations, via a staff of private investigators and hackers.

Rupert Murdoch: She thinks I'm hot!
Wendi Murdoch: I can't believe I have to sleep with this man! Now I know how Beyonce feels. Why couldn't I have married someone hot like Russell Crowe or Jet Li.

Blair is under fire over this news, as the connection posed a great conflict of interest that was not in the best interest of the British people, not because of the child, but due to Murdoch's dirty business dealings of a criminal nature.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

News Corp Continued To Pay Andy Coulson After He Quit To Spy On The British Government

Rupert Murdoch

The phone hacking hearings that transpired in the British Parliament today, featuring News Corp's crooked CEO, Rupert Murdoch and son, James Murdoch, saw the duo pummeled with questions by MPs. The hearing brought to light the fact, News Corp supplemented the income of former employee, Andy Coulson, when he went to work for British Prime Minister, David Cameron.

This lends the impression Murdoch was, as usual, trying to control the British government, in unethical conduct he has also engaged in on U.S. shores, by befriending, then spying on its incumbents, for financial and social gain. There is no legitimate reason Murdoch could have for continuing financial payments to a former employee, who began working for the duly elected head of state.

Andy Coulson

Having Coulson passing national secrets to Murdoch, a foreign citizen that has not been elected to public office, is criminal and highly inappropriate. Murdoch attempted to get his tentacles in former Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown as well, circling them like a hungry shark. In America, Murdoch cajoled his way into the Clinton and Bush administrations and tried to push his way into the Obama's White House, in more ways than one.

He is out of line. Murdoch and other power hungry businessmen like him, need to learn their place. If the public did not elect you to office, you have no business trying to dictate government and public policy. Furthermore, having such a tyrant trying to impose his will on prime ministers and presidents, places undue pressure, burdens and distractions, detrimental to their job performance.

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Thursday, March 31, 2011

Movie Review: The Ghost Writer

Title: The Ghost Writer

Year Of Release: 2010

Review Date: March 31, 2011

Rating: PG-13

Running time: 128 minutes

Box Office Gross: $60,012,087

Site Rating: 3 out of 10 stars

The "Ghost Writer" stars Ewan McGregor and Pierce Brosnan, in a movie that is a complete dig at former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. This thinly veiled fact is poorly hidden. Brosnan stars as the Blair-esque British Prime Minister, Adam Lang, who helped to facilitate illegal, White House ordered renditions of world citizens. The Prime Minister is brought up on criminal charges for this misconduct by an international tribunal.

Spolier alert: Lang's wife, a university educated professional, also bears resemblance to Cherie Blair, the spouse of Tony Blair. In the film, she is accused of being a treacherous, murderous CIA spy that was recruited during her university days to control Lang. The film even has a Condoleezza Rice look alike as the U.S. Secretary of State. They really were not trying to hide what they were insinuating with this film.

McGregor's character, the Ghost Writer, is hired to assist Lang in completing his memoirs. However, the scandal breaks, regarding criminal charges, just as they begin the book, endangering his very life.

The Ghost Writer is directed by pedophile filmmaker, Roman Polanski. I would not have watched this film had I realized it, but I found out afterwards, after missing the opening credits.

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Tony Blair Apologizes For The War In Iraq


Tony Blair (left) and George Bush (right)

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, is promoting the release of his memoirs and in it he apologizes for the loss of life that accompanied the disastrous Iraq war. He refers to former U.S. President, George W. Bush, as a man of integrity, which is a lie, as the man lied to everyone and initiated the most deceitful war in modern history. Blair also dishes on the Queen and the late Princes Diana, which the Royal Family is certain to be angry about, as they are very private people.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

Former MI5 Chief: War Made Terrorism Worse


The former head of Britain's MI5 (Military Intelligence), disputed claims made by former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, regarding the Iraq war. Eliza Manningham-Buller discredited Blair's George W. Bush fed assertions that Iraq was connected to Al Qaeda and other terrorist factions.

Manningham-Buller stated during the Chilcot Inquiry this week, that as a result of the Iraq war, terrorist incidents grew exponentially, as people began to believe, "The West is attacking Muslims."

Eliza Manningham-Buller

Former U.S. President Bush and his V.P., Dick Cheney, concocted the fake war, whose real mission was to steal oil and Blair went along with it, due to America's "Special Relationship" with Britain. To this day, Brits are still angry with Blair over his decision and Americans are enraged with Bush.

Tony Blair (left) and George W. Bush (right)

At the end of the day, no matter how you slice it, Bush is an evil psychopath, who spooled many into his madness that brought the world to the edge of financial destruction and despair. He belongs in the Hague.

Barack Obama

America's current President, Barack Obama has promised to end the war, but no real steps have been taken to do so, only the issuance of unfulfilled promises that shall hamper America's growth for a long time to come.

Monday, May 3, 2010

David Cameron Courts Liberal Voters Promising A Clean Break From Labour

David Cameron and wife Samantha

Conservative Party chief, David Cameron, the current frontrunner in the British elections, has vowed to give the United Kingdom a clean break from Labour Party policies, as instituted by former Prime Minister, Tony Blair and perpetuated by incumbent, Gordon Brown.

Liberal spending by the Labour Party has placed Britain in a financial quandary, greatly exacerbated by the global financial crisis that began in 2008 in the United States.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Gordon Brown Expresses Regret Over Iraq War

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

Today, British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, took an opposing position to former Prime Minister, Tony Blair, during the ongoing Iraq War inquiry held in London, England.

Brown showed some contrition and apologized to the families of British soldiers and Iraqi civilians for the loss of life during the war, rather than proudly proclaiming the illegal conflict as wholly appropriate, as Blair did several weeks ago before the committee.

However, he did defend the war as the right decision, which in the Judiciary Report's opinion, it was not. Key facts were withheld from the public, by the Bush Administration, which would have revealed the war to be illegitimate and illegal.

Brown's regrets will mildly help to break the domestic and international ice, concerning public reaction to the war the British people overwhelmingly did not want.

Brown blames U.S. for Iraq chaos

Posted 06:41 PM ET - British PM Gordon Brown insisted Fri. that the decision to invade Iraq was justified, but told a major inquiry into the war that the U.S. dismissed warnings of chaos and violence once Saddam Hussein was toppled. In giving 4 hours of evidence to Britain's inquiry on Iraq, a somber Brown, who was Treasury chief from '97 to '07, expressed regret over the lost lives, and acknowledged mistakes were made by leaders in Washington and London.

http://www.investors.com

Thursday, February 11, 2010

British Government To Release CIA FOIA Documents

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

An astute British judge has ordered the release of U.K. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) documents the Labour Party sought to hide to protect the C.I.A., who broke international law. It is in relation to requests for government documents on the rendition and torture of a Muslim Ethiopian, who resides in Britain.

The Bush administration had threaten to sever all intelligence ties with Britain, its top ally, if the documents were disclosed. It's this type of small minded, with emphasis on small minded, thinking that got the Bush administration into so much trouble around the world. Threatening and bullying people into submitting to Bush's will in blatant wrongdoing was ungodly and evil.

The world already knows Bush renditioned people and had them severely tortured in his madness that violated the Geneva Conventions. The Labour Party should not have gone along with it. Ditto for the other world governments that facilitated it in their nations.

Mr. Bush and all involved should hope one day someone doesn't do the same to their adult children, as they did to other people's grown children, who were not even terrorists. People were snatched off the streets of the world, smuggled from the nations they live in and tortured for information they did not have, only to be released later scarred and emotionally destroyed. That's just as bad as terrorism.

Side Bar: Severing ties with Britain would only serve to hurt America. While the C.I.A. is competent, albeit inhumane, America's first line of defense against terrorism is the F.B.I. and while there are intelligent agents in the organization, the Bureau's director is as dumb as rocks and sorely lacking common sense. MI5 and MI6 has pertinent information on Londonistan and their operatives in the Middle East, who seek to harm Britain and America.

Government forced to publish U.S. torture allegations

The government lost a legal battle on Wednesday to prevent the disclosure of secret U.S. intelligence material relating to allegations of "cruel and inhuman" treatment involving the CIA.

London's Court of Appeal rejected a request by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband to prevent senior judges from disclosing claims that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed had been shackled and subjected to sleep deprivation and threats while in U.S. custody.

The office of Dennis Blair, U.S. director of national intelligence, issued a statement saying the British court's decision "to release classified information provided by the United States is not helpful, and we deeply regret it."

"The protection of confidential information is essential to strong, effective security and intelligence cooperation among allies," the statement said. It indicated the ruling would create "challenges" but the two countries would "remain united in our efforts to fight against violent extremist groups."

Miliband had argued that full disclosure of the redacted claims might make the United States less willing to share intelligence and thus prejudice Britain's national security.

Recent events showed the importance of sharing intelligence, and the U.S. authorities were concerned about the release of such material, he told parliament, adding that he was working with U.S. officials to ensure bilateral ties were not damaged.

Mohamed, an Ethiopian national and British resident, was arrested in Pakistan in April 2002. He says he was flown to Morocco on a CIA plane and held for 18 months, during which he says he was repeatedly tortured, including having his penis cut with a knife. Morocco has denied holding him.

He was transferred to Afghanistan in 2004 and later moved to Guantanamo Bay, U.S. authorities have said. He was never charged and returned to Britain in February 2009...

But last October, two High Court judges ruled there was "an overwhelming public interest" in releasing the details, a decision the Appeal Court upheld Wednesday...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com

Monday, February 1, 2010

Tony Blair Testifies In Iraq Inquiry

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair

Former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, testified today in a very sad hearing held in London, before the Iraq Inquiry Commission. One got the impression he knew more than he was saying. The question is, why an intelligent man let himself get swept up in this evil. Why did he go along with this, knowing what he knew - items the world was not privy to when a case was being made for the war.

Blair express no remorse for getting Britain into the Iraq war, which was based on faulty intelligence, trumped up by the Bush Administration. Blair needs to show some contrition, as many have died. His reasoning is former Iraqi Prime Minister Saddam Hussein was an evil man. This is true, but the war was waged under false pretenses.

Bush and co. invoked an international emergency, citing Weapons of Mass Destruction posing a threat to humanity, as the grounds to illegally invade another nation, murder its leader and topple the government. This was patently wrong and evil, as there was no emergency, no WMDs and no lawful basis for the attack.

The Bush Administration had no legal mandate to invade Iraq. The war was born out of greed and corruption in wanting to steal what would amount to trillions in oil. The Bush Administration lied to the American people and the world to achieve the unthinkable. But then it blew up in Bush's face.

"Video: Dead soldier mum 'sickened' by Tony Blair"

No one should try to pretty it up. You are war criminals with the blood of over 1 million civilians (Iraqis) and 10,000 soldiers on your hands, for waging a war that was not based in any other purpose than theft.

The Bush and Cheney names will live in disgrace and infamy indefinitely. They are despised in America and the world. History will never justify murder for oil. Stealing and clinging to the people of Iraq's national property like common criminal, while civilians and soldiers paid for it with their blood.

Why you chose to go along with it, Mr. Blair, is something the British people struggle to understand, as reflected by their articles and online comments. You need to seek the Lord's forgiveness for the poor decisions you have made, Mr. Blair, as many people have died.

The occupation was and is illegal. If Obama does not get out of that region, he too will join the exclusive and disgraced club of war criminals. It is really sad those acting in government can decide other people's earthly fate.

Iraq inquiry: Tony Blair had no regrets over toppling Saddam Hussein

Published: 10:00PM GMT 29 Jan 2010 - Tony Blair refused to express regret for overthrowing Saddam Hussein and told the Chilcot inquiry he would take the decision to invade Iraq again even knowing the dictator had no weapons of mass destruction.

During six tense hours in front of the inquiry into the war, the former prime minister also used his testimony repeatedly to urge world leaders to take military action against Iran, which he described as more dangerous than Iraq had been under Saddam.

His confident delivery was interrupted only once by the audience, which included the relatives of British troops killed in Iraq, when he was asked to reflect on the fate of those who had died during the conflict.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Monday, December 21, 2009

The Treachery Behind The Iraq War

Dick Cheney (front) George W. Bush (back)

So much treachery went into the Bush Administration's Iraq war that it is astonishing. Former President George W. Bush and his Vice President, Dick Cheney, pushed so many terrible boundaries that left the world aghast.

New reports have since surfaced that the War in Iraq was planned prior to when the September 11th terrorists attacks occurred, but was used as an excuse to invade the Middle Eastern country.

Former British Prime minister, Tony Blair, set off a barrage of bad articles last week, when he defiantly stated, he would have invaded Iraq with Bush, whether or not Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

The pieces of the puzzle are quite ugly:

Scientist, David Kelly, who refuted the Bush Administration's claims of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, ended up dead, in what was staged to look like a suicide, but was in fact murder.

Valerie Plame, the wife of U.S. ambassador, Joseph Wilson, was acting as a spy on behalf of America, when she was inexcusably outed by the Bush Administration, due to the fact, her husband came back with a report that didn't serve the purposes of the warmongering President and Vice President. She could have been killed by enemies of the nation, while doing her job, when the Bush Administration exposed her status, out of sheer revenge.

In the hours after the September 11th terrorist attacks, the family of the terrorist that accepted responsibility for the bombings, Osama Bin Laden, was immediately ushered out of America by their old friend, George W. Bush, when they should have been detained for questioning.

In 2009 a report is issued stating under, George W. Bush, chances were squandered, where the U.S. government could have apprehended terrorist Osama Bin Laden.

George W. Bush lied, telling the world Iraqi Prime Minister, Saddam Hussein, had weapons of mass destruction that posed a threat to modern civilization. They invade Iraq, then reluctantly stated to the world, no weapons of mass destruction have been found. Yet, against the American soldiers' wishes, find reason after reason, to stay in the region, while millions of barrels of oil mysteriously go missing, during Bush's illegal occupation of Iraq.

In 2008 Bush is heard wickedly stating to the press he, "Thought the oil would pay for the war." His true intentions revealed once again.

In 2009, the British government issue a report stating, in 2002 former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair and U.S. President George W. Bush, conspired at his ranch in Texas, to invade Iraq and knew in advance that Saddam Hussein had already destroyed the weapons of mass destruction and had nothing to do with September 11th.

Other evidence later surfaces pointing to the fact, the Bush Administration was in on 911, seeking to use it as a precursor for war.

3,000 people died in America during the September 11th terrorist attacks. To date, over 1,000,000 men, women, grandparents, children and babies have died, because of the war in Iraq, with an additional 4,000,000 Iraqis displaced to neighboring countries, such as Syria, fleeing the war torn region.

In short, it was genocide and Bush, Cheney, Blair and Bin Laden should be prosecuted for war crimes and crimes against humanity. But make no mistake, you are currently eluding the hands of the world's justice systems, but you shall not evade the Hands of God's justice. The same misery you inflicted on millions of people, shall return to you, as you, "Reap what you sow."

Saddam lawyer seeking consent to prosecute former UK PM Blair for war crimes

Monday, December 14, 2009 - Saddam Hussein's former lawyer on Saturday asked the British attorney general for consent to prosecute former prime minister Tony Blair for violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Giovanni di Stefano, who represents former Iraqi deputy prime minister Tareq Aziz, sent a letter asking for consent to prosecute Blair after Blair said in a BBC interview aired Sunday that he would have invaded Iraq even if he knew there were no weapons of mass destruction. According to the letter:

In summary the allegation against ANTONY CHARLES LYNTON BLAIR involves a violation of offences within the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 which without doubt and by his own admission can only but be deemed "not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly."

The attorney general's office has not yet commented on the request.

Sir John Chilcot is chairing the Iraq Inquiry, which began investigations in November to determine the legality of the Iraq War. Last month, a letter leaked to the Iraq Inquiry indicated that former UK attorney general Peter Goldsmith warned Blair that the planned invasion of Iraq could be illegal.

Earlier in November, documents implicating improper and possibly illegal conduct in relation to the war were leaked to the British press. In October, a UK High Court criticized the Ministry of Defence for its failure to properly set up an independent inquiry into claims that war crimes had been committed by British soldiers following the so-called "Battle of Danny Boy" in southern Iraq.

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu

Report Blames US Military Leaders for Missing Bin Laden in 2001

29 November 2009 - Senate report says former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the top US military commander General Tommy Franks rejected requests for a massive contingent of American troops to attack Tora Bora mountains.

A U.S. Senate report says top military leaders during the Bush administration had an opportunity to capture or kill Osama bin Laden in December 2001 in Afghanistan, but they failed to send enough American troops to attack his hideout.

The report, by staff of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, concludes that U.S. special forces, CIA officers and Afghan troops had chased the al Qaida leader and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahri, to the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan, but former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the top U.S. military commander, General Tommy Franks, rejected requests for a massive contingent of American troops to attack the area...

http://www1.voanews.com

Blair and a deal signed in blood: PM and Bush had secret plan to topple Saddam, says envoy

Last updated at 7:46 AM on 27th November 2009 - Britain's former ambassador to the U.S. Sir Christopher Meyer arriving to give evidence to the Iraq inquiry yesterday

Tony Blair and George Bush 'signed in blood' a secret deal to topple Saddam Hussein almost a year before Iraq was invaded, Britain's former U.S. ambassador suggested yesterday.

Sir Christopher Meyer said the ex-Prime Minister's stance on Iraq 'tightened' a day after the two men spent an afternoon meeting in private at the former President's family ranch in Texas.

He also told the Iraq Inquiry that officials found themselves 'scrabbling to find a smoking gun' to prove Saddam had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) while the U.S. prepared troops for the 2003 conflict.

And in an embarrassing jibe at Mr Blair, Sir Christopher said Margaret Thatcher would not have allowed herself to be handbagged by the White House in the same way...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Blair and Bush 'agreed' on Iraq regime change in private 2002 Crawford Ranch meeting

Last updated at 5:03 PM on 26th November 2009 - Britain's former ambassador to the U.S. Sir Christopher Meyer arriving to give evidence to the Iraq inquiry today

Tony Blair and George W. Bush may have 'signed in blood' their agreement to oust Saddam Hussein in secret talks almost a year before the start of the war in Iraq, it was revealed today.

Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain's ambassador to the U.S. at the time, recounted how the two leaders spent hours speaking in private at the President's ranch in Texas in April 2002.

The very next day, the Prime Minister gave one of his most significant speeches about the Iraqi leader, declaring that he was too dangerous to be ignored and mentioning 'regime change' publicly for the very first time.

Sir Christopher told the Iraq inquiry that the talks appeared to be a major turning point in Mr Blair's view on the threat posed by Saddam and British policy.

Condoleeza Rice had told him within hours of the September 11 attacks in New York that the U.S. was already considering whether there was any link between the atrocity and the Iraqi Leader, the former top diplomat said.

But he said Mr Blair was insistent at that time that there had to be a 'laser-like' focus on Al Qaeda and Afghanistan and Iraq should not come into the equation.

It was not until the meeting at the Crawford Ranch in 2002 that there was a major shift and British and American policy appeared to come together, he said.

By that point, Britain realised that it would be a 'complete waste of time' to try and talk America out of its stance and so instead moved to focus on securing UN approval...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk

Saturday, November 28, 2009

Britain Believed Bush Wanted War Pre-911

Former British PM Tony Blair and incumbent Gordon Brown

A report has been released illustrating the British government was of the belief, the George W. Bush administration, sought to go to war in Iraq, prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11th. The published reports also revealed, Britain labeled the Bush Administration's occupation of Iraq, an illegal one.

Previously, a Dick Cheney speech gave away that fact, he was eyeing Iraq as a nation that could potentially be the world's largest oil producers. With his Halliburton ties, it was a greedy disaster waiting to happen, that cost scores of people their lives, both soldiers and civilians. What a tragedy.

Iraq inquiry: Britain rejected regime change as illegal in 2001

Published: 4:48PM GMT 24 Nov 2009 - British officials discussed toppling Saddam Hussein in 2001 but rejected a policy of “regime change” as illegal under international law, the Iraq war inquiry heard yesterday.

On its opening day of public hearings, Sir John Chilcot’s public inquiry into the invasion heard that British diplomats heard the “drumbeat” of war emanating from Washington even before the September 11 terrorist attacks...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk

Thursday, October 8, 2009

British Political Parties Agree To TV Debate

Video: Brown agrees to TV election debate - ITN NEWS

Labour leader and Prime Minister of Great Britain, Gordon Brown, has agreed to television and radio debates with rival, Conservative counterpart, David Cameron. This should prove very interesting. May the best man win.

The climate has grown quite tense in the British political world, due to Britons displeasure with U.S. led wars in the Middle East and the economic downturn that began in America, hitting investors in the United Kingdom, that bear ties to Corporate America, much like during the Great Depression.

U.S. President Barack Obama (left) and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (right)

This in turn created a massive decline in employment and a spate of foreclosures, shadowing the decline that transpired in America. Due to heavy taxation of 40% on personal income and 40-61% on business income, Britain had more reserves to tie them over during the crisis.

However, the U.S. government has been printing more money as the solution, which places the nation in firm danger of inflation. A tax increase on the rich in America would have been the more appropriate, prudent choice.

David Cameron and wife Samantha

There have been improvements in the financial state of Britain since the 2008 global financial crisis began, which Gordon Brown will no doubt tout, but conversely, David Cameron will state, the incumbent Prime Minister and his predecessor, Tony Blair, created the problem in the first place. Ah politics.