Serious Figurativity, Sartorial Consequentialitude

The Glorious Successor today continues his glorious combination of continuity with more of the same by issuing a ringing endorsement of British subservience to the global enforcer. The Observer notes that, having little instinct for political suicide at present, Brown is "unlikely to personally align himself so closely to Bush in the way Tony Blair did"; since Bush has lost control of Congress, the Senate, much of the Republican party, many senior military officers and possibly a few Democrats, there seems little purpose in proper political grovelling until January 2009. "It is in the British national interest that the relationship with the United States is our single most important bilateral relationship," the Glorious Successor pronounced; the reason being that "we cannot solve any of the world's major problems without the active engagement of the US." It's also extremely unlikely that we can solve them without the active engagement of China; but the advantages of a Pacificist special relationship are apparently outweighed by those of standing shoulder to shoulder with a major global polluter ruled by an élite clique which locks people up without trial and launches unprovoked invasions of other countries. The Glorious Successor notes that "Britain and America have always stood side by side in tackling the great global challenges of the past", as in 1776, 1812, 1914, 1939 and the Suez crisis; and thus "we will continue to work very closely together as friends to tackle the great global challenges of the future", such as terrorism and nuclear proliferation, which Britain and America have done so much to provoke; and climate change, which America is ignoring while Britain makes pious noises. Meanwhile, the Cabinet has been informed that the Glorious Successor is now "seen as a serious figure who is uniting his party and who dresses well".