Team Brian GB
12-09-2007, 08:49 PM
It is just braking across the wires here in London that Gordon Brown is greeting British soldiers in Southern Iraq and made the announcement that responsibility for Basra- the last province under British control- will be handed over to the Iraqi Government in around two weeks. This is the biggest move yet undertaken by Britain in pulling back and eventually pulling out, as it stands of the 40,000 Britons who were involved with the initial invasion just 4,000 remain down from 12,000 at the beginning of last year.
Maybe it is just because I am highly cynical, but Brown is getting totally battered in domestic politics at the moment with some polls putting him down an incredible 13 points, he is moving from major crisis to major crisis to major crisis, there are currently three distinct police investigations into his party on the basis of fraud and he makes an announcement that Britain will effectively be in a position to relieve themselves from Iraq by Christmas Day?
I for one believe he has different motivations than the ones he has announced.
Maybe it is just because I am highly cynical, but Brown is getting totally battered in domestic politics at the moment with some polls putting him down an incredible 13 points, he is moving from major crisis to major crisis to major crisis, there are currently three distinct police investigations into his party on the basis of fraud and he makes an announcement that Britain will effectively be in a position to relieve themselves from Iraq by Christmas Day?
I for one believe he has different motivations than the ones he has announced.